Want to Write a Compiler? Just Read These Two Papers (2008)
programming in thetwenty-first centuryIt’s not about technology for its own sake. It’s about being able to implement your ideas.Want to Write a Compiler? Just Read These Two Papers.Imagine you don’t know anything about programming, and you want learn how to do it. You take a look at Amazon.com, and there’s a highly recommended set of books by Knute or something with a promising title, The Art of Computer Programming, so you buy them. Now imagine that it’s more than just a poor choice, but that all the books on programming are at written at that level.That’s the situation with books about writing compilers.It’s not that they’re bad books, they’re just too broadly scoped, and the authors present so much information that it’s hard to know where to begin. Some books are better than others,…
