Any book recommendation for writing a compiler?

Tue Nov 7 08:39:43 UTC 2017

On Tuesday, 7 November 2017 at 01:30:14 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
> On Saturday, 4 November 2017 at 20:28:17 UTC, Ola Fosheim 
> Grøstad wrote:
>> On Saturday, 4 November 2017 at 15:51:30 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
>>> People who say that after reading the dragon book, you will 
>>> program your own programming language are lying.
>>
>> Well, you most certainly can write your own programming 
>> language after reading about 30% of the dragon book, but I 
>> think you can find easier books to get started these days.
>
> I've just read the dragon book. let's write a compiler

A basic compiler is not so complicated. Just align the semantics 
of your language to an existing one and use that language as your 
intermediate representation (C, D, Go whatever).