Interesting. I believe the author of PLAI is in this mailing list. ;-) Harry Pan <div>2007/12/27, Jason Wang <<a href="mailto:randomtalk@gmail.com">randomtalk@gmail.com</a>>: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">well if you care more about a high-level overview of compiler construction that closely relates to scheme, here is a good book that appeared on the list before and which i am reading now: <a href="http://www.cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Books/ProgLangs/2007-04-26/">http://www.cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Books/ProgLangs/2007-04-26/</a> Hope you have fun with it :D Jason On Dec 26, 2007 8:05 PM,  <<a href="mailto:henrik@topoi.pooq.com">henrik@topoi.pooq.com</a>> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 09:37:52PM -0500, Todd O'Bryan wrote: > > I hate to ask this, because I feel like it must have been asked > > before, but I searched the archives and couldn't find it. > > > > Can anyone suggest a good book on compiler theory? > > > > I'm not so interested in the nitty-gritty details of going to assembly > > code, but more interested in the difference in expressive powers and > > performance of different kinds of parsers, the idea of Abstract Syntax > > Trees, error detection and recovery, etc. In other words, I guess I'm > > most interested in the front-end part of compiler construction. > > > > I've been trying to go through the dragon book and I keep getting > > annoyed that they're being incredibly detailed about things that I > > don't care about, but vague and hand-wavy about things I do care about > > and wondered if there's something out there that people think is > > better. > > I've liked Modern Compiler Design by a friend of mine, Dick Grune et al. > But I'm biased. > > But it isn't so fanatically detailed about trivia as the dragon book. > > -- hendrik > > > > > > Thanks, > > Todd > > _________________________________________________ > >   For list-related administrative tasks: > >   <a href="http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme">http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme</a> > _________________________________________________ >   For list-related administrative tasks: >   <a href="http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme">http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme</a> > -- "It's a wonderful world hobbes ol' buddy, let's go explorin'!" - Calvin in "Calvin and Hobbes" _________________________________________________   For list-related administrative tasks:   <a href="http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme">http://list.cs.brown.edu/mailman/listinfo/plt-scheme </a> </blockquote></div>