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Author popped up [in the HN comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8750354) to say his previous book Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation "is almost completely subsumed into PAPL".
Fun look into how people write *about* their languages of choice, not actually all that Scala-focused despite the title.
If anyone has any questions about the software please let me know and I'll do my best to answer.
The Implementation of Functional Programming Languages (1987 Book by Simon Peyton Jones)
(research.microsoft.com)