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"Joe Schmo" <askmeforit@nospam.myisp.com> wrote:

> The first few chapters of "Programming Language Pragmatics" by Michael Scott
> for a good and fast overview. (The rest of the book is quite good also if
> you are designing your own language).

Thanks.

> "Writing Compilers & Interpreter - An Applied Approach" by Ronald Mak.
> Creates a Pascal compiler in C which emits x86 assembly language.
> The Fischer and LeBlanc authored book is good for the implementation
> details. I.e., their particular take on an implementation anyway. It sticks
> in my mind that this is a very good book (but I somehow lost the mini review
> I made for myself about it) that I will obtain again in the future.

Thanks, I'll look for both of these. For now I will start with the IBM-based
books since they will be the easiest for me to understand. Thanks to
everyone for the suggestions.