| ▲ | msla 13 hours ago | |
fanf2 on Dec 25, 2015 [dead] | parent | prev | next [–] I quite like "understanding and writing compilers" by Richard Bornat - written in the 1970s using BCPL as the implementation language, so rather old-fashioned, but it gives a friendly gentle overview of how to do it, without excessive quantities of parsing theory. | ||
| ▲ | ac50hz 10 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
Sadly, Richard died in January this year. This book is available to download from one of his academic pages: https://www.eis.mdx.ac.uk/staffpages/r_bornat/#compilerbook https://www.eis.mdx.ac.uk/staffpages/r_bornat/books/compilin... | ||
| ▲ | Tor3 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
I like that book too, I bought it many decades ago and learned enough to write a transpiler for converting Fortran source code to Turbo Pascal. | ||
| ▲ | msla 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |