Re: Good practical language and OS agnostic text?

> Aharon (Arnold) Robbins wrote:
>
> It may be showing its age, but I think that "Crafting A Compiler in C"
> by Fischer and LeBlanc is worth looking at. The original "Crafting
> A Compiler" was written in the late 80s when Ada was going to conquer the
> world and was also pushing compiler technology. Circa 1991 I translated
> the Ada code and pseudo-code into C for the C version of the book. Once
> I did that I finally understood how LR parsers work. :-)


The Ada version sounds intriguing. Thanks for mentioning it. I've done
similar things with non-compiler projects (translate something from one
language to another very different one). It helps greatly with understanding
as you said.

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