The last time I learned a new programming language (Squirrel), I did so by reading the VM and compiler source code in detail rather than writing code. You get a far more complete picture of the semantics that way! I didn't even read much of the documentation first; it answered far too few of my questions. (Edit:) I want to know things such as: how much overhead do function calls have, what's the in-memory size of various data types, which strings are interned, can I switch coroutines from inside a C function called from Squirrel...
> I want to know things such as: how much overhead do function calls have, what's the in-memory size of various data types, which strings are interned, can I switch coroutines from inside a C function called from Squirrel...
So is that a problem with learning from abstractions, or just simply a problem that this stuff isn't mentioned in the manual?
