How I Learn Compilers

2025-03-04   blogpage programming howilearn sketch

Crafting Interpreters by Nystrom

SICP Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Abelson

((How to Write a (Lisp) Interpreter (in Python)) (by Peter Norvig)(archived))

Dabeaz (David Beazley) Write a Compiler Course Notebook

LLVM Tutorial — LLVM (archived)

• Found from this project: https://github.com/eliben/pykaleidoscope
  

• LLVM by Chris Lattner in The Architecture of Open Source Applications (Volume 1) (archived)
  

• LLVM tutorial slides by Lattner: https://llvm.org/pubs/2004-09-22-LCPCLLVMTutorial.pdf
  

Read code of Sly Lex Yacc (archived) and PLY

• LARL(1) parsers
  

• David Beazley - Reinventing the Parser Generator - PyCon 2018 (archived)
  

George Hotz

• Scheming in Haskell - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QsC_VeYL4g
  

• Metamath - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Or-5OLCNDA (parser) + https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAXjsUZoOgo
  

Other relevant:

• LL, LR, SLR, and LALR parsers
  

Good bloggers

• Eli Bendersky's website (archived)
  

Resource lists

• Glyphack's Compilers Resources (archived)