Re: Compiler Theory/History Book Recommendations Wanted

joshualevy@yahoo.com (Joshua Levy)
3 Dec 2001 20:26:20 -0500

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From: joshualevy@yahoo.com (Joshua Levy)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 3 Dec 2001 20:26:20 -0500
Organization: http://groups.google.com/
References: 01-11-138
Keywords: books, history
Posted-Date: 03 Dec 2001 20:26:20 EST

"Zac Hester" <zhester@enetis.net> wrote in message news:01-11-138...
> I would really like to see some of the historical solutions to
> building compilers from the ground up. I'm also desperately
> interested in modern techniques (heavy use of OOP).


An interesting question. I hope someone makes an FAQ out of the
answers, but I don't have time, myself. Sigh.


I nominate the following papers to the 'compiler historical papers collection':


REFLECTIONS ON TRUSTING TRUST by Ken Thompson, part of
ACM TURING AWARD LECTURES published by ACM PRESS.


I also have read a great article by John Backus on the design of FORTRAN.
It might have been published in a SIGPLAN special issue on the history
of compiler development.


I have also read a good description of the history of the AWK programming
language, but (again) I can't remember where it was published.


Sorry that none of these deal with OOP directly, but they're all I have.


Joshua Levy


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