Any book recommendation for writing a compiler?

[Basile B.]

On Thursday, 2 November 2017 at 14:24:01 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
> On Wednesday, 1 November 2017 at 20:53:44 UTC, Dr. Assembly 
> wrote:
>> Hey guys, if I were to get into dmd's source code to play a 
>> little bit (just for fun, no commercial use at all), which 
>> books/resources do you recommend to start out?
>
> You don't need to read books to write a compiler, a bit of 
> theory from "here or there" will be enough, particularly if you 
> start from scratch, there's almost no chance that you ever 
> touch the more edgy things (something like theory of types 
> maybe ).
>
> A few ones written in D (sorted by URL length):
>
> - https://github.com/dlang/dmd
> - https://github.com/BBasile/yatol
> - https://github.com/higgsjs/Higgs
> - https://github.com/VoltLang/Volta
> - https://github.com/beast-lang/beast-dragon
>
> Otherwise a subreddit that's not been quoted yet:
>
> - https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/ and their 
> homepage listing a few projects from people who have started 
> "the journey": http://www.proglangdesign.net/

Dr Assembly what i mean can be illustrated by this:

You see this https://github.com/matijapretnar/eff ?
http://www.eff-lang.org/ ?

People who say that after reading the dragon book, you will 
program your own programming language are lying.