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torbenm@nospam.diku.dk (Torben Fgidius Mogensen) wrote:

> You could have a look at my book "Introduction to Compiler Design"

Thanks for the links.

> The books are language agnostic, describing techniques independently of
> any specific implementation langauge, and mostly independently of the
> source and target languages for the compilers.  There is some math, but
> not as much as in some other compiler textbooks I have seen.

I will look them over. It is nice to know the author is available!

> I wrote the book mainly as a reaction to the books available at the
> time, which were either (IMO) too advanced for students just beginning
> the second year of CS or basically walk-throughs of specific compilers
> for and in specific languages and, hence, not generally useful.

That's an issue for me with not much theoretical background and wanting to
at least learn enough so I can go off on my own and do something
useful. Thank you.