Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED!nerds-end From: Janis Papanagnou Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.compilers Subject: Re: 40 year old compilers Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2013 17:29:24 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 15 Sender: johnl@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <13-06-019@comp.compilers> References: <13-06-004@comp.compilers> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.iecc.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: leila.iecc.com 1372084342 21072 64.57.183.58 (24 Jun 2013 14:32:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@iecc.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2013 14:32:22 +0000 (UTC) Keywords: books, history Posted-Date: 24 Jun 2013 10:32:21 EDT X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:33890 comp.compilers:929 Am 03.06.2013 02:14, schrieb glen herrmannsfeldt: > Someone in comp.lang.c is interested in understanding how a 40 years > old C compilers works, but doesn't know much about compilers. > > Seems to me that one way to learn is to read 40 year old compiler books. ... Have a look at books from Aho and Ullman. Those are well written (IMO) and were quasi standard to read hereabouts around the late 1970's and 1980's. Janis [That's the classic 1977 Dragon Book, rather than the more recent and much more expensive editions. Link to Amazon" http://net.gurus.org/bk/a/0201000229 -John]