Writing a C Compiler

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I was attending the Recurse Center in fall 2017 when I started on the series of blog posts that eventually turned into this book. I’m immensely grateful to the Recurse Center for giving me the time and space to follow my own curiosity, in a community of kind, brilliant people, without the pressure to produce anything. Without them, I would never have attempted this project.

I’m also grateful to everyone in the Recurse Center community whose advice, encouragement, and pair programming sessions shaped those initial blog posts. I’d particularly like to thank Julian Squires for pointing me toward Abdulaziz Ghuloum’s “An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction,” the article that served as the starting point for this project. ...