Engineering a Compiler

Hey, I seconded this, the Dragons Book is not the best textbook or introduction to the topic, there are a lot of better ones. The Dragons Book is more of a classic. If you want to read a good book on compilers construction then you're better off reading "Engineering a Compiler" by K. Cooper and L. Torczon or "Modern Compiler Implementation in ML" by A. Appel. If you want more resources on Compilers other than books, such as tutorials, guides, talks and papers, then go ahead and check the Awesome Compilers vertical I compiled a while ago: https://github.com/aalhour/awesome-compilers Cheers!

- The Practice of Programming ; Kernighan and Pike - The Advent of the Algorithm ; Berlinski - Engineering a Compiler ; Torczon and Cooper - Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment ; Stevens and Rago - Databases, Types, and the Relational Model ; Date - Code ; Petzold

Engineering a Compiler 2nd Ed by Cooper & Torczon I used it to supplement my prescribed compiler construction textbook and it's incredibly useful! Also surprisingly easy to read compared to some texts with a very math-heavy approach.

I'll second the vote for Engineering a Compiler. I'm not even that interested in actually making one, but the way they work is fascinating, and this book was excellent, and I kept it after the class was over.

"Engineering a Compiler" by Cooper and Torczon The Dragon Book is not the best book these days, it focuses too much on stuff you won't care about and not enough on the stuff you do care about. (e.g. it focuses a lot on parser generators and says almost nothing about analysis and optimization) EDIT: A good followup text is "Advanced Compiler Design and Implementation" by Muchnick