I learnt a lot from the book 'Writing Compilers and Interpreters' by Ronald Mak. I have the original edition of the book, which is C++ based (building a langua

I learnt a lot from the book 'Writing Compilers and Interpreters' by Ronald Mak. I have the original edition of the book, which is C++ based (building a language that compiles to x86 assembly), but I see on googling that there is a newer edition that is Java-based, I can't comment upon that, but assume the overall theory and mechanics are just as good (but from the overview it seems it is not only Java-language based in implementation, but also targets the Java VM).