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From: Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com>
Subject: Re: Compiler Theory Textbook
Date: 1999/09/13
Date: 1999-09-13T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909132204220.5540-100000@shell5.ba.best.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 37DD0C13.A9CACD85@pwfl.com

On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Marin David Condic wrote:
> Matthew Heaney wrote:
> > In article <37D96425.4C6E8549@pwfl.com> , Marin David Condic
> > <condicma@bogon.pwfl.com>  wrote:
> >
> > > Does anybody have a favorite Compiler Theory book that uses Ada as the
> > > language being compiled? Or even better: that uses Ada as both the
> > > implementation language and the source language?
> >
> > I very much enjoyed Crafting A Compiler,  by Fisher and Leblanc.  I think it
> > has gone out of print, though.  Most of the examples were in Ada, as I
> > recall.
> >
> > -
> 
> Thanks. I can probably get it from the Pratt library - they're good about
> tracking things down from inter-library loans if necessary.

Niklaus Wirth's book "Compiler Construction" is pretty good too, even
though it uses a subset of Oberon and not Ada. Fischer and LeBlanc's book 
leaves out generics and OO, but does treat Ada style overloading. Wirth's 
book is short, and doesn't waste a lot of time on parsing. 

-- Brian






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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-09-10  0:00 Compiler Theory Textbook Marin David Condic
1999-09-10  0:00 ` Fraser Wilson
1999-09-11  0:00 ` Franck Pissotte
1999-09-11  0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-09-13  0:00   ` Marin David Condic
1999-09-13  0:00     ` Brian Rogoff [this message]
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