Programming Language Literature
There is a huge literature on programming languages, interpreters, and
compilers. This is a very preliminary list of some good books.
Updated 2003-03-24
- Frank Atanassow has a good list of programming
language theory texts online.
- Andrew W. Appel: Modern Compiler Implementation in C, Cambridge
University Press 1998.
- Andrew W. Appel: Modern Compiler Implementation in Java, Cambridge
University Press 1998.
- Andrew W. Appel: Modern Compiler Implementation in ML, Cambridge
University Press 1998.
- Dick Grune et al: Modern Compiler Design, Wiley 2000.
- Implementation of Standard ML: Andrew W. Appel: Compiling with
Continuations, Cambridge University Press 1992.
- Implementation of lazy functional languages:
- S.L. Peyton Jones: The Implementation of Functional Programming
Languages, Prentice-Hall 1987.
- S.L. Peyton Jones and D. Lester: Implementing Functional
Languages, Prentice-Hall 1992.
- Dick Grune's commented list of books on parsing techniques
Peter Sestoft (sestoft@dina.kvl.dk) 2002-03-15