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Built a tiny interpreter from scratch in C to understand how they work

A minimal, clean interpreter in C, built for fun. A perfect starter kit for learning about or building your own language. I built this project for two simple reasons: I've always used higher-level languages and wanted to finally understand what's happening "under the hood" of an interpreter.

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