It's great to see this available and updated. It was one of my favorite compiler books growing up because it's so small and straight-forward. I feel it's a mu

It's great to see this available and updated. It was one of my favorite compiler books growing up because it's so small and straight-forward. I feel it's a much better starting point for someone actually interested in building a compiler than say, the Dragon book. Even more immediate and hands-on is Abdulaziz Ghuloum's "An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction" paper: http://scheme2006.cs.uchicago.edu/11-ghuloum.pdf http://scheme2006.cs.uchicago.edu/11-ghuloum.pdf (which chides Wirth for oversimplifying)