From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a59c23ec9366c82d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Brian Rogoff Subject: Re: Compiler Theory Textbook Date: 1999/09/13 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 524768277 References: <37D96425.4C6E8549@pwfl.com> <37da384d@news1.prserv.net> <37DD0C13.A9CACD85@pwfl.com> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: nntp1.ba.best.com 937285676 223 bpr@206.184.139.136 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-09-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Marin David Condic wrote: > Matthew Heaney wrote: > > In article <37D96425.4C6E8549@pwfl.com> , Marin David Condic > > 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