Jack Crenshaw's Let's Build a Compiler, while unfinished, is an eminently readable introduction and tutorial. Nicklaus Wirth's Compiler Construction is a very good textbook on the basics of simple …

Jul 28, 2014 · The first compiler was written by Grace Hopper in 1952 while the Lisp interpreter was written in 1958 by John McCarthy's student Steve Russell. Writing a compiler seems like a much …

A compiler is a program that translates the source code for another program from a programing language into executable code. The source code is typically in a high-level programming language …

Jun 16, 2011 · I have already read Aho's Compiler Design and Tanenbaum's OS concepts book and they all only discuss concepts and code in a high level. They don't go into the details and nuances …

Feb 26, 2012 · Just wondering (now that I've started with C++ which needs a compiler) why Python doesn't need a compiler? I just enter the code, save it as an exec, and run it. In C++ I have to make …

I always wonder this, and perhaps I need a good history lesson on programming languages. But since most compilers nowadays are made in C, how were the very first compilers made (AKA before C) or …

Dec 22, 2014 · Is each and every language written in C language? A language is a set of abstract mathematical rules and restrictions ("if I write this, that happens"). It isn't written in anything, really. It …

It's worth noting that languages are not interpreted or compiled, but rather language implementations either interpret or compile code. You noted that Ruby is an "interpreted language", but you can …

The key is right here: The first C++ compiler (Cfront) was written in C++. To build that, I first used C to write a "C with Classes"-to-C preprocessor. "C with Classes" was a C dialect that became the …

Jul 12, 2015 · I can understand the fact that Java needs both a compiler and an interpreter. It compiles source code to bytecode and then a virtual machine (on Windows, on Linux, on Android, etc.) …