How to Write Your Own Compiler (2009)

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Post by yinso » Fri, Aug 25, 2017, 7:46 AM UTC

How to Write Your Own Compiler (2009)
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Re: How to Write Your Own Compiler (2009)

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Post by peter303 » Fri, Aug 25, 2017, 8:49 AM UTC

From its earliest year UNIX/Linux had utilities including lex and yacc that automate much of these fuctions. I tended to use awk to create powerful new command scripts.

Re: How to Write Your Own Compiler (2009)

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Post by mtkd » Fri, Aug 25, 2017, 8:51 AM UTC

One of the best resources I've seen on this is Capon and Jinks 'Compiler Engineering Using Pascal' (1988; ISBN 0-333-47155-5) if you can get hold of it

http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~pjj/book.html

Re: How to Write Your Own Compiler (2009)

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Post by caryhartline » Fri, Aug 25, 2017, 9:02 AM UTC

If you're wondering why that page looks the way it does, well:

> " rel="nofollow">http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">

Re: How to Write Your Own Compiler (2009)

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Post by chrisseaton » Fri, Aug 25, 2017, 9:15 AM UTC

peter303 wrote: post #2

From its earliest year UNIX/Linux had utilities including lex and yacc that automate much of these fuctions. I tended to use awk to create powerful new command scripts.

lex and yacc only automate one tiny part of the front-end of a compiler.

Re: How to Write Your Own Compiler (2009)

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Post by jonsen » Fri, Aug 25, 2017, 9:30 AM UTC

mtkd wrote: post #3

One of the best resources I've seen on this is Capon and Jinks 'Compiler Engineering Using Pascal' (1988; ISBN 0-333-47155-5) if you can get hold of it http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~pjj/book.html

Also Brinch Hansen on Pascal Compilers:

https://www.amazon.com/Brinch-Hansen-Pascal-Compilers/dp/013...

Re: How to Write Your Own Compiler (2009)

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Post by pjmlp » Fri, Aug 25, 2017, 10:00 AM UTC

jonsen wrote: post #6

mtkd wrote: post #3

One of the best resources I've seen on this is Capon and Jinks 'Compiler Engineering Using Pascal' (1988; ISBN 0-333-47155-5) if you can get hold of it http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~pjj/book.html

Also Brinch Hansen on Pascal Compilers : https://www.amazon.com/Brinch-Hansen-Pascal-Compilers/dp/013...

> 1 New from $3,000.00

Uau! I should take care of my old books.

Re: How to Write Your Own Compiler (2009)

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Post by hnlmorg » Fri, Aug 25, 2017, 10:01 AM UTC

caryhartline wrote: post #4

If you're wondering why that page looks the way it does, well: > " rel="nofollow">http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">

It's easy to snigger at the code generator used for that site yet the signal to noise ratio for the content itself (which, if we are completely honest, is the metric that really matters) is still better than half the sites that use trendy frontend frameworks and passes JS lint.

Re: How to Write Your Own Compiler (2009)

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Post by quickben » Fri, Aug 25, 2017, 10:13 AM UTC

caryhartline wrote: post #4

If you're wondering why that page looks the way it does, well: > " rel="nofollow">http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">

It's short, informative, and up to the point.

Re: How to Write Your Own Compiler (2009)

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Post by andreasgonewild » Fri, Aug 25, 2017, 10:16 AM UTC

May I suggest considering Forth as a substrate? Or will that get me voted straight into neckbeard land?

I've had a lot of fun hacking Forths, writing my own languages didn't really click until I finally had a serious look. Forth skips on most of the complexity of getting from bytes to semantics; even Lisp is complex in comparison; but is still powerful enough to do interesting things; and the best foundation for DSL's I've come across.

My latest rabbit hole is called Snabel: https://github.com/andreas-gone-wild/snackis/blob/master/sna...