Constructing a compiler is sometimes considered to be like taming a dragon, or riding a tiger. Indeed, the most famous compiler textbook is called “the dragon book”.1 This course is based around another well-known compiler textbook called “the tiger book”.2
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Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools Aho, Lam, Sethi, Ullman, Addison-Wesley, 2007, 978-0133002140 ↩
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Modern Compiler Implementation in Java, Second Edition Second Edition, Andrew W. Appel and Jens Palsberg, Cambridge University Press, 2002, 978-0521820608. ↩