[plt-scheme] Good compiler texts?

Hi,

> 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.

   If you are interested in scanning and parsing, the book _Crafting a 
Compiler with C_ by Charles Fischer and Richard LeBlanc is worth looking 
at.  I believe Charles Fischer is an expert on LL(k)-parser error 
detection and recovery.

-Arthur