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Any recommendations for introductory text for writing compilers and interpreters?

• Silhouette 8y ago
  What sort of language are you interested in implementing? Once you've got past the lexing and parsing stages, the implementation strategy can be quite different for, say, a functional-style language and an imperative OO-style language, so it would be helpful to know more and then perhaps some of us could suggest suitable material.
  • neatcoder 8y ago
    Preferably something with the syntax of Java.
    • yvdriess 8y ago
      His point is that syntax is nearly the most irrelevant part of language implementation. - "I want to build a house" - "OK, what kind of house" - "Preferably red"
• w23j 8y ago
  http://www.craftinginterpreters.com/ http://www.craftinginterpreters.com/
• pjmlp 8y ago
  You can start by reading these ones, "Let's Build a Compiler", by Jack Crenshaw https://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/ https://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/ "Compiler Construction" by Niklaus Wirth http://www.ethoberon.ethz.ch/WirthPubl/CBEAll.pdf http://www.ethoberon.ethz.ch/WirthPubl/CBEAll.pdf Then you can follow up with "Project Oberon (New Edition 2013)" by Niklaus Wirth, for the whole stack experience https://inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/ProjectOberon/index.html https://inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/ProjectOberon/index.html
• LiberalArtist 8y ago
  I think "Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation" does much of what you want: in particular, it takes the view that "from our perspective parsing is mostly a distraction, because we want to study the parts of programming languages that are not parsing." The author, Shriram Krishnamurthi, puts the complete text online for free at http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs173/2012/book/ http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs173/2012/book/