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: Teaches how to design new programming languages to solve specific problems. This includes building a "meta-circular evaluator"—an interpreter for a language written in that same language.

: Moves down to a lower level, describing how high-level languages are implemented on hardware-like register machines, covering compilation and memory management. Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

(SICP) is a foundational computer science textbook by MIT professors Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman . Often called the "Wizard Book" in hacker culture, it focuses on managing software complexity through abstraction , modularity , and the creation of new descriptive languages . Core Themes and Structure : Teaches how to design new programming languages