Re: Papers/essays on lisp compiler construction

From: Jens Axel Søgaard (usenet_at_jasoegaard.dk)
Date: 10/17/03 

Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 23:23:27 +0200

Hal Niner wrote:
> Can anybody give me a reference to techniques of Lisp compiler
> construction?
>
> I'm particularly interested on compilers that are written in lisp (the
> majority?). How do these compilers deviate from "usual" compilers
> (dragon-book style)?
>
> A document that shows how the design process for such a beast was made
> would be great. More points if it describes not only the
> parsing/compiling pass but also the optimizing pass.

Christian Queinnec's book is excellent:

     <http://www-spi.lip6.fr/~queinnec/WWW/LiSP.html>

There is also chapter five of SICP

<http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-35.html#%_sec_5.5>

If you are interested in papers on writing compilers then take a look
at the references at readscheme.org:

     <http://library.readscheme.org/page8.html> 

-- 
Jens Axel Søgaard

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