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We'll be creating a __lazily evaluated__, __functional__ language.
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#### What we won't cover
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Surely a guide written by one person can't be comprehensive. Not only
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do I have a finite amount of time to share this informatiom with you,
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but I also don't want to dilute the content of the posts in this series. Furthermore,
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many things that we'll be using for this tutorial are taught
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by numerous other sources, and those sources do a better job than I would.
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So, here are some things that you might want to know for this series,
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which won't be covered by the series itself:
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* [Theory of computation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_computation),
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or, more specifically, [automata theory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automata_theory).
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Deterministic and nondeterministic finite automata are briefly mentioned
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during tokenizing, and context free grammars are used in our parser. However,
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I don't provide a real explanation for either of those things.
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* [Functional programming](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming),
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with a touch of [lambda calculus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda_calculus).
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We jump straight into implementing the concepts from these.
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* C++. I do my best to use correct and modern C++, but I'm not an expert. I will
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not explain the syntax / semantics of C++ code included in these posts, but I will
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explain what my code does in the context of compilers.
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#### The syntax of our language
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Simon Peyton Jones, in his two works regarding compiling functional languages, remarks
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that most functional languages are very similar, and vary largely in syntax. That's
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