Compilers and Compiler Generators: an introduction with C++

This book has been written to support a practically oriented course in programming language translation for senior undergraduates in Computer Science. It is aimed at students who are probably quite competent in the art of imperative programming (for example, in C++, Pascal, or Modula-2), but whose mathematics may be a little weak; students who require only a solid introduction to the subject, so as to provide them with insight into areas of language design and implementation, rather than a deluge of theory which they will probably never use again; students who will enjoy fairly extensive case studies of translators for the sorts of languages with which they are most familiar; students who need to be made aware of compiler writing tools, and to
come to appreciate and know how to use them.
It will hopefully also appeal to a certain class of hobbyist who wishes to know more about how translators work.