[Haskell-cafe] Hackathon hesitation

[Jeremy Shaw]

At Wed, 12 Jul 2006 10:57:54 -0700,
Chad Scherrer wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I'm interested in attending the Hackathon, but I don't have any previous
> experience working on compilers.

Perhaps we should start a list of pre-session recommended reading on
the wiki page? I would recommend at least skimming the following
papers/books:

Implementing functional languages: a tutorial
Simon Peyton Jones and David Lester. Published by Prentice Hall, 1992.
http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/Papers/pj-lester-book/

Typing Haskell in Haskell (1999)
Mark P. Jones
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/jones99typing.html

Implementing Lazy Functional Languages on Stock Hardware: the Spineless Tagless G-machine
Simon L. Peyton Jones
http://research.microsoft.com/research/pubs/view.aspx?pubid=179

I like those because you can get a lot out of them, even if you have
no prior compiler experience.

Anyone have other suggestions?

j.