An appraisal of compiler technology

  • Authors:
  • Robert M. McClure

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • AFIPS '72 (Spring) Proceedings of the May 16-18, 1972, spring joint computer conference
  • Year:
  • 1971

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Abstract

Although the last decade has seen the implementation of a very large number of compilers for every conceivable language, the literature on compiler writing is still unorganized. There are many papers on formal languages, syntactic analysis, graph theoretic register assignment, and similar topics to be sure. But, they are not very useful in helping the newcomer to the field decide how to design a compiler. Even the recent books in the field are more encyclopedic in nature than instructive. The best single book available is Gries, which has a good bibliography for further study.