Understanding And Writing Compilers: A-Do-It-Yourself Guide

This book attempts to explain and demystify the principles of compiler writing
so that you can go out and build a working compiler of your own. There is
enough detail in this book for you to build a compiler for quite a complicated
language { certainly PASCAL, perhaps ALGOL 68 or SIMULA 67 { but it
doesn't attempt an encyclopaedic coverage of the eld. It is intended more as an
introduction to compiler-writing and a do-it-yourself kit for the compiler-writer,
giving enough detail for you to understand the principles of the subject, than as
a survey of past history or present horizons. The principles of interpretation are
close enough to those of compilation for chapter 19 to give a simple introduction
to interpreter writing.