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Favorite Compiler and Interpreter Resources

by mxsjoberg on 11/10/23, 11:41 AM with 3 comments

• by ghosty141 on 11/10/23, 5:32 PM

  I personally love the book „Engineering a Compiler“ by Cooper & Torczon. Its got the perfect mix of theory and practice and helped me a lot understanding the whole subject. No prser generators and dependencies is a huge bonus too, the first chapters quickly get you up to speed with lexing and various methods of parsing.

• by vore on 11/10/23, 5:02 PM

    First off, real world languages generally don't use parser generators. Parser generators are also harder to learn, and are another dependency and build step. So you can happily skip.
  

  Parsers are fun to write maybe once or twice but honestly one of the least exciting and most time consuming things to write. Use a parser generator if you can!