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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.


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Tor3today at 11:08 AM

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.