I like how it takes an incremental, step-by-step approach. One of my favourite papers is Ghuloum's "An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction" [1], which

I like how it takes an incremental, step-by-step approach. One of my favourite papers is Ghuloum's "An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction" [1], which shows how to build not a mere interpreter, but a _compiler_ to actual machine code, in twenty-four steps, starting from simple integers and proceeding through more and more advanced topics. Shameless plug: I've been trying to follow along, but making it entirely self-contained and avoiding any additional tools. The result (in very early stages, currently dormant but not quite dead yet) is called Lithium [2]. [1]: http://scheme2006.cs.uchicago.edu/11-ghuloum.pdf http://scheme2006.cs.uchicago.edu/11-ghuloum.pdf [2]: https://github.com/nathell/lithium https://github.com/nathell/lithium