[fpc-pascal] Modern Compiler Construction using Pascal

[greim]

I guess you already noticed the book of the master himself: Nicklaus Wirth


https://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/CompilerConstruction/index.html

Its revised 2017 (!) based on Oberon.

Afaik one of the first editions was based on Pascal.

Markus




Am 01.01.2018 um 19:17 schrieb Yves Cloutier:
> Hi there,
> 
> I'd be interested to know if any modern compilers have been written in 
> Pascal (other than the Pascal Compiler).
> 
> It's unfortunate that that most Pascal books out there are rather 
> dated.  I did recently purchase
> 
> 
>   Compiler Engineering Using Pascal (by Capon)
> 
> 
> https://www.amazon.ca/Compiler-Engineering-Using-Pascal-Capon/dp/0333471555/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1514829567&sr=8-1&keywords=Compiler+Engineering+Using+PASCAL
> 
> And look forward to getting it in my mailbox.
> 
> I also have Brinch Hansen on Pascal Compilers. I did have another book 
> on writing a compiler using pascal but it was using some framework which 
> I was not able to find.
> 
> Another great book I have is Introduction to Compiler Construction by 
> Thomas Parsons, but I was not able to follow it all the way through.
> 
> My interest for the moment is more for creating a DSL that scans, parses 
> then generates Groff as its target code.
> 
> After gaining some experience with the process I would like to venture 
> into writing a transpiler for something like SETL -> Pascal or Oberon -> 
> Pascal.  There are other interesting older languages too like BCPL that 
> could be used as the source language.  Implementing Icon in Pascal would 
> be interesting as well as its implementation is extremely well 
> documented in the book "Implementing Icon and Unicon" by Clinton Jeffery
> 
> I find the Pascal compiler to be really fast and the fact that it is 
> available for so many platforms is very appealing.
> 
> 
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