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I can only recommend the "Dragon Book". Its old but really a great intro into Compilers. I had the benefit of working with it must say I didn't find anything be

• eru 17y ago
  I found the Dragon Book quite dull, and old fashioned. "Implementing Functional Programming Languages" [1] by Simon Peyton-Jones makes a much more interesting read. Edit: I guess, we are talking about different Dragon Books. Wikipedia lists [2] at least three. And says about the first: "Principles of Compiler Design is now rather dated [...]." [1] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/slpj-book-1987/ http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Book http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Book