[plt-scheme] Good compiler texts?

Interesting. I believe the author of PLAI is in this mailing list. ;-)

Harry Pan

2007/12/27, Jason Wang <randomtalk at gmail.com>:
>
> 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:
> http://www.cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Books/ProgLangs/2007-04-26/
>
> Hope you have fun with it :D
>
> Jason
>
> On Dec 26, 2007 8:05 PM,  <henrik at topoi.pooq.com> 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
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