We did this for our Compilers module during my second year CS degree at Nottingham university. It's a very interesting subject and I thought it gave a very good

We did this for our Compilers module during my second year CS degree at Nottingham university. It's a very interesting subject and I thought it gave a very good grounding in understanding new languages. Unfortunately we had to write our compiler in Java, we had the option of using Haskell but I didn't really learn get to grips with functional programming until the third year.