An incremental approach to compiler construction

Ghuloum’s 2006 paper teaches compiler building by starting with a tiny working compiler and extending it step by step instead of front-loading hundreds of lines of machinery

I want to share another amazing paper from 2006 by A. Ghuloum called "An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction". The great part about this is that it is "incremental" because instead of having to write hundreds on lines of code befo
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