Re: question on books about 'modern' compilers

Niall Dalton <niall@cs.ucc.ie> writes:


> ...
> read? I remember seeing a reference to a book about writing compilers
> in java. Could someone point me in the direction of this?


I believe that Andrew Appel has just published such a book, "Modern
Compiler Implementation in Java" -- See his homepage
http://www.cs.Princeton.EDU:80/faculty/appel/


> Btw, I'm interested in functional and logic languages as well as
> imperative ones.


For lazy (Haskell-like) functional languages, see the texts by
Simon Peyton-Jones "The Implementation of Functional Programming
Languages" and "Implementing Functional Languages" (the second is a
project book), both Prentice-Hall


For implementations of ML, try Andrew Appel "Compiling with
Continuations" Cambridge Press, which examines the SML/NJ 0.75
compiler in reasonable detail. Or Xavier Leroy. "The ZINC experiment,
an economical implementation of the ML language", INRIA Technical
report, about implementation of a predecessor of CAML-Light, available
off Leroy's home page http://pauillac.inria.fr/~xleroy/


For Scheme, see tech reports by Steele on the Rabbit Compiler and by
Kranz et al on the Orbit Compiler.


For logic programming, see Hassan Ait-Kaci "Warren's Abstract Machine:
A Tutorial Reconstruction" MIT Press. There must be more but I am not
familiar with the field.


Enjoy,


-- Allyn Dimock
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