If you don't need something as super-tiny, but don't want to go all-out Dragon book, Niklaus Wirth has released an updated copy of his classic "Compiler Constru

If you don't need something as super-tiny, but don't want to go all-out Dragon book, Niklaus Wirth has released an updated copy of his classic "Compiler Construction" for free, now targeting a subset of his Oberon language. All in 130 pages. No fancy functional methods aimed at a language high in the Chomsky hierarchy, but all the basics are there. (I consider it one of IT's biggest losses that we don't follow Wirth more, go notwithstanding) http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/CompilerConstruction/CompilerConstruction1.pdf http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/CompilerConstruction/C...