[racket] Off topic: A curriculum (books, papers, essays) for how to design and implement compilers and interpreters?

On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 12:27:29PM -0500, Grant Rettke wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> If you could compose the perfect course of reading (books, papers,
> essays) for a student to follow to learn how to design and implement
> compilers and interpreters what would it look like?

One good elementary text, which gets you started witout 
drowning you in technicel detail:

Modern Compiler Design, by Disck Grune et al.

Yes, it does go as far as techniques to be used for exotic languages 
like Haskell and Prolog.

-- hendrik