The Dragon Book is (AFAIK) still considered the definitive book on the
subject. It's called that because it has (or at least, had, for the
edition that I bought) a red dragon on the cover.
The official title is:
Compilers : Principles, Techniques, and Tools
by Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi, Jeffrey D. Ullman (Contributor)
ISBN: 0201100886
You can get it from Fatbrain:
http://www1.fatbrain.com/asp/bookinfo/bookinfo.asp?theisbn=0201100886&vm=
Dave
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, Brent Dax wrote:
> I'm going on vacation soon, and I'd like to get a good book on writing
> compilers--hopefully one that will help me when we actually start coding
> Perl 6. Any suggestions? I have no formal education on compilers, and
> I only know C, C++ and Perl (duh).
>
> (If this is too off-topic, let me know.)
>
> Thanks,
> --Brent Dax
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
