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| From: | Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@antartida.xyz> |
| Newsgroups: | comp.compilers |
| Date: | Mon, 20 Jan 2025 08:38:42 -0300 |
| Organization: | Compilers Central |
| References: | 25-01-004 25-01-010 |
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| Posted-Date: | 20 Jan 2025 10:27:46 EST |
antispam@fricas.org writes:
> John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com> wrote:
>> The authors developed a compiler for a toy language targeting Raspberry Pi
>> using lex and yacc. Nothing very new but it shows how you build a
>> compiler incremntally expanding the source language.
>>
>> https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.04503
>
> I am affraid that the best use of this paper is to forget it.
> On one hand presentation is very naive and their "final"
> compiler apparently does not handle things handled in ususal toy
> compilers. On the other hand their presentation has a lot of
> gaps and mistakes, so that a newbie is unlikely to be able to
> follow them.
Would you recommend an equivalent paper or book that addresses these
short-comings but maintains the educational spirit of the paper? (It's
okay if the architecture is not a popular one.)
[Good question. There's the old Let's Build a Compiler which you can find
on my web site and some books. Alan Holub wrote a well known book but the
code in the book is incredibly buggy so I wouldn't recommend it. -John]
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