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?
A few more resources on writing a frontend (lexer, syntactic and
semantic analizer).
http://thinkingeek.com/gcc-tiny/
Tells how to create a GCC frontend for a Pascal-like language,
tiny. Can be useful since you can look how it applies to a real
dfrontend in GDC.
https://ruslanspivak.com/lsbasi-part1/
Very clear tutorial on writing a Pascal interpreter in Python.
Very beginner friendly, but not complete yet.
http://buildyourownlisp.com/contents
It is an online book that teaches C by writing an interpreter for
a Lisp-like language, lispy. The code can be easely translated to
D.
If you want you can also look at some haskell books. A simple
parser is one of the standard projects used to teach haskell.
