That can be good, though - so many compiler texts go into heavy detail about LALR parsing algorithms, etc., and it's hard to get a sense of how it all ties toge

That can be good, though - so many compiler texts go into heavy detail about LALR parsing algorithms, etc., and it's hard to get a sense of how it all ties together. Abdulaziz Ghuloum's "An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction" (http://scheme2006.cs.uchicago.edu/11-ghuloum.pdf http://scheme2006.cs.uchicago.edu/11-ghuloum.pdf) is great, too!