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Bibliography of Programming Languages Implementation
Doing some research about compilers, interpreters and virtual machines, I have gathered some bibliography from several resources. Here it is, in no particular order:
Essentials of Programming Languages, by Daniel P. Friedman, Mitchell Wand and Christopher T. Haynes
Programming Language Pragmatics, by Michael L. Scott
Smalltalk-80: The Language and Its Implementation, by Adele Goldberg and David Robson
Writing Compilers [...]
Toy Scheme interpreter in Lua
As part of my Lisp studies, I have implemented a toy Scheme interpreter in roughly 1000 lines of Lua. It is here. It supports tail-call optimisation, lexical scope for closures, and first-class continuations via call/cc.
I have departed from the traditional approach of implementing a Scheme interpreter in Scheme itself because I wanted to avoid possible [...]