Except the dupe story, does anyone gave the book a closer look and can say if it's suitable for beginning programmers? By that I mean if it's suitable to study and implement an interpreter in other language without a degree in computer sience?
Programming is one of my hobbies and my dream is to do an interpreter on my own, but most books are so heavy to understand if you know what I mean.
Thank you very much for your opinion.
I had the same feeling, so I tried it out myself. Inspired by Jonesforth (highly recommended), I wrote an arguably complete Lisp interpreter in a single, heavily commented ARM assembly language file.
Lisp is an obvious target, with its minimal syntax and simple concepts. The first Lisp was written in assembly on a machine with comparable capacity to your laptop keyboard's microcontroller, after all.
I hope you find it useful: