Conference turris::languages

331.0. "Compiler Design Spec (or Compiler Constr Info?" by PHDVAX::FEENY () Wed Apr 08 1992 10:14

ciao, y'all.  

i have a request for info.  i am currently taking a graduate
course entitled "Linguistics of Programming Languages". one of
our assignments was to invent, and give a 3-4 page description
of, a "little language".  this i did -- i described a little
language which would generate flowcharts, given statements
describing their elements. 

ANYWAY, the follow-up assignment is to write a "design
specification for a processor for your little language".  it's a
research project;  i.e., i'm supposed to research how compilers
are implemented. 

one reference which, i suspect, would be most helpful, would be a
design spec for a "real" compiler.  i am hoping that i can find
one out on mother ethernet, so i can print it up and take it with
me, (rather than go and roast in a library, cause i can't take
a book out, 'cause i don't belong to that library, and my
library doesn't have anything i can use). 

SO...  can anyone point me to a ethernet-accessible compiler
design spec (or, for that matter, an ethernet-accessible
description on compiler construction). 

i suppose that an automatic answer will be to look in the
individual language notes conferences -- which i plan to do. any
recommendations on which one(s) to look in? 


thanx for any pointers (which i will gladly "dereference" -- yuk 
yuk).

pax.
michael feeny