From: William Rutiser <wruyahoo05@...>
Date: 2008-12-15T05:47:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Beggining the compiler journey

Rafael Rosa wrote:
> Jen and Martin,
>
> Thanks to both of you, these links are very useful indeed. I'll dig into 
> them as soon as finish a paper I'm working on. The compiler building is 
> very very interesting, and it's seems to be quite accessible too. If 
> everything goes as I expect I'll publish my learning notes somewhere, 
> and I'll let you know.
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Rafael.
>   
Topher Cyil's book, "Practical Ruby Projects", has a chapter on parsing 
in Ruby.

You may wish to consider implementing a simple interpreter before a 
compiler. This would let you see something happening sooner. The parsing 
part could be common to both. Some compilers for some languages rely 
heavily on an interpreter disguised as a run-time library.

Have fun,
Bill