Inspirations

Languages internals

• PHP Internals Book
• Perl 5 Internals
• The Potion Language
• Lua
  • The Implementation of Lua 5.0 (PDF)
  • The Virtual Machine of Lua 5.0 (PDF)
• Java
  • The Structure of the Java Virtual Machine
  • Inside the Java Virtual Machine 2nd edition: 9 free chapters out of 20
  • JVM Internals blog
• Python
  • Design of CPython's Compiler
  • Python internals: Working with Python ASTs
  • Python’s Innards
• Ruby
  • Ruby Under a Microscope
  • Ruby Internals: 70 slides

Namespaces / Objects hierarchy

Java

• Java objects hierarchy picture
• Liste of Java packages
  • java.lang hierarchy
  • java.io hierarchy
  • java.net hierarchy
  • java.util hierarchy

.NET

• .Net Framework picture
• .NET Framework Class Library

Object Oriented C

• Some libraries by Laurent Deniau
• OOC PDF 221 pages, by Axel-Tobias Schreiner
• Object Oriented C
• Object-oriented programming in C
• Discussion on StackOverflow

• Cello: Higher level programming C library