Re: Something "simpler" than the Dragon Book

"Floris van den Berg" <flvdberg@wxs.nl>
28 Jul 1999 01:51:04 -0400

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From: "Floris van den Berg" <flvdberg@wxs.nl>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 28 Jul 1999 01:51:04 -0400
Organization: Planet Internet
References: 99-07-119
Keywords: books

>In particular, I would appreciate references to any book that provides
>a (relatively) simple and gentle introduction to how
>compilers/interpreters work.


A tutorial that helped me is "Let's build a compiler" by Jack Crenshaw.
Although he uses pascal examples and code generation for a 68000 processor,
he really does a great job in explaining the basics of a compiler without
going into too much theory. You can find it here:
http://www.iecc.com/compilers/crenshaw/


Floris
http://www.magentammt.com


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