Basics of compiler design

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1. chrisaycockDec 2019
   As someone currently building a language, books like this have been critical. Basics of Compiler Design covers a lot of the common ground of compiler construction from a more theoretical standpoint.

   Other recent books I've found really helpful include:

   Crafting Interpreters by Bob Nystrom (@munificent on HN)

   https://www.craftinginterpreters.com

   Language Implementation Patterns by Terence Parr (creator of ANTLR)

   https://pragprog.com/book/tpdsl/language-implementation-patt...

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2. aalhourJul 2017
   Hey, I have been in your place like last year, and as a result of researching the field of Compilers and Interpreters construction I wrote a curated list of awesome resources on Compilers, Interpreters and Runtimes, feel free to check it out at: https://github.com/aalhour/awesome-compilers.

   The list is huge, so I recommend you start with the Compilers course by Stanford and go through one of the two following books as a parallel reading: 1. Engineering a Compiler, K. Cooper, L. Torczon. 2. Modern Compiler Implementation in ML, by A. Appel.

   If you want a smaller book, the I recommend the Basics of Compiler Design by T. Mogensen, it is a nice and short one.

   All of these resources are linked to in the list.

   Happy tinkering!

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3. DearVoltJan 2017
   Wow, that's awesome! I picked up mine second hand at a textbook distributor for the equivalent of about $30.

   For anyone interested in other books on compiler construction, I would recommend these:

   - "The Basics of Compiler Design" by Torben Mogensen

   - "Modern Compiler Implementation in C" by Andrew Appel (ML and Java versions available too)

   - "Modern Compiler Design" by Grune, Bal et al.

   The Dragon Book is obviously infamous for this topic, but I would recommend covering at least two slightly more basic texts before taking it on.

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4. rlmMay 2009
   I've read it as a part of the introductory compiler course at DIKU (Computer Science dept. of University of Copenhagen).

   It's good for exactly what the title says: Basics of Compiler Design. It won't make you a compiler guru, but it will give you a good grasp of the fundamentals.

   If anyone is interested, I could share the weekly assignments and the exam project from the course.

   The advanced compiler course at DIKU uses Modern Compiler Implementation in ML: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~appel/modern/ml/.

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5. bhrgunathaAug 2017
   Compiler/transpiler - same difference.

   I think they've gone out of fashion now, but when I learned about compilers we were introduced to T-diagrams, sometimes called tombstone or bratman diagrams and shown how to bootstrap a compiler for a high level language from scratch [1].

   Torben Mogensen's Basics of Compiler Design [2] - Chapter 13 is devoted to bootstrapping a compiler, which introduces them.

   [1] scratch meaning a computer (with relevant hardware) with a CPU with it's machine code instructions and some way to make files containing those instructions. You can do this even without assembler, that's the first step. Of course no-one would do this now, but it's a necessary step developing the first high level languages and compilers.

   [2] http://www.diku.dk/hjemmesider/ansatte/torbenm/Basics/

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6. creatureNov 2013
   Basics of Compiler Design is quite theoretical, but it's available online for free: http://www.diku.dk/~torbenm/Basics/
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