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The literature on interpreters (vs. compilers) is pretty thin. I enjoyed reading these:

1. Peter John Brown. 1979. Writing Interactive Compilers and Interpreters.

2. Timothy Budd. 1987. A Little Smalltalk.

3. Ralph E. Griswold. 2000. The Icon Programming Language, 3e.

4. Pat Shaughnessy. 2013. Ruby Under a Microscope: An Illustrated Guide to Ruby Internals.

This is a new one I haven't read yet, but it looks very practical:

5. Clinton L. Jeffery. 2021. Build Your Own Programming Language: A Programmer's Guide to Designing Compilers, Interpreters, and DSLs for Solving Modern Computing Problems.

I don't know anything about this one, but people have told me they prefer the first edition:

6. Ronald Mak. 1991. Writing Compilers and Interpreters: An Applied Approach.




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