I cannot recommend Thorsten Ball's books highly enough. They're really fantastic, step-by-step tutorials, and you certainly don't need a CS degree to understand what he's doing.

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Writing an interpreter in Go https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Interpreter-Go-Thorsten-Ball/... is pretty good. The book assumes that you know Go and the resulting interpreter is not a Lisp.

Writing an Interpreter in Go is a very elegant book for learning how to write an interpreter from scratch using Go. Worth every cent: https://www.amazon.com/dp/300055808X

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