I personally love the book „Engineering a Compiler“ by Cooper & Torczon. Its got the perfect mix of theory and practice and helped me a lot understanding the wh

I personally love the book „Engineering a Compiler“ by Cooper & Torczon. Its got the perfect mix of theory and practice and helped me a lot understanding the whole subject. No prser generators and dependencies is a huge bonus too, the first chapters quickly get you up to speed with lexing and various methods of parsing.