Re: 40 year old compilers

Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com>
Fri, 21 Jun 2013 17:29:24 +0200

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From: Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.compilers
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 17:29:24 +0200
Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server
References: 13-06-004
Keywords: books, history
Posted-Date: 24 Jun 2013 10:32:21 EDT

Am 03.06.2013 02:14, schrieb glen herrmannsfeldt:
> Someone in comp.lang.c is interested in understanding how a 40 years
> old C compilers works, but doesn't know much about compilers.
>
> Seems to me that one way to learn is to read 40 year old compiler books. ...


Have a look at books from Aho and Ullman. Those are well written
(IMO) and were quasi standard to read hereabouts around the late
1970's and 1980's.


Janis
[That's the classic 1977 Dragon Book, rather than the more recent
and much more expensive editions. Link to Amazon"
http://net.gurus.org/bk/a/0201000229 -John]


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