Learning to compile

[Stephen Partington]

Some things to look for are online. For example, MIT has a ton of work
online for free, https://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 8:24 AM, Carruth, Rusty <Rusty.Carruth at smartm.com>
wrote:

> Something they may or may not teach in school – take a good look at YACC
> and LEX (Flex/Bison in the open source world, IIRC).  They can help a lot
> in parsing the tokens.
>
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> (At one point, after having written YACLP (Yet Another Command Language
> Parser), I realized that it would probably make more sense to use LEX/YACC
> (Flex/Bison) than to keep writing tokenizers and such…  Especially since
> the intention had been that you could enter the commands either on the
> command line and also run them like a pre-written program.  Never got the
> whole system finished, so don’t know if it DOES make more sense or not
> (from a practical point of view after having tried it out)…)
>
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> There may also be some good books.  I know I have a couple of books from
> my school days which cover various aspects of ‘language translation’.  I’ll
> try to remember to look for them tonight.  Don’t remember if they were any
> good, though.
>
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> *From:* PLUG-discuss [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.phxlinux.org] *On
> Behalf Of *trent shipley
> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 23, 2018 6:39 PM
> *To:* Main PLUG discussion list
> *Subject:* Learning to compile
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> I have no money for school, (and whether school produces better coders or
> not, I LIKE school, but that's irrelevant due to the money problem.)
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> Is it possible to teach yourself to write compilers in an imperative
> language? If so how?
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