Fundamentals of compilation: an incremental approach. Sik J.

Compilers are traditionally considered one of the most difficult for understanding and studying topics. Usually in books, each chapter is devoted to a separate passage of the compiler. But such a structure does not allow to reveal how language tools affect the decisions made during the design of the compiler.

instead, an incremental approach has been selected in the “Basics of Compilation”: the compiler is improved sequentially, and the reader can write the whole code independently. The book helps to create its own compiler for a small, but powerful rather powerful programming language, gradually, with a step by entering increasingly complex language tools.

Jeremy Sik explains the most important concepts, algorithms and data structures that underlie modern compilers, and lays the basis for studying more complex topics. This is a brief, but affordable guide has long been used by students and professionals.