[Haskell-cafe] Compilers book in Haskell

[Kristopher Micinski]

A swapped order probably appeals to most haskellers (by contrast I
first learned ML).  The real difference is that the Haskell books will
focus on lazy languages.  If your tastes are in implementing fast lazy
languages using graph reduction then you may also be interested in
[1]: although I haven't read all of it.  I would say that the material
in Appel's books and SPJ's books is fairly disjoint, and if you're
interested in Haskell you should definitely focus on those.  (However,
Appel's book is also worth browsing if you're at a library, it can be
read fairly quickly, the main "cool concepts" are in chapter two!)

Kris

[1] http://wiki.clean.cs.ru.nl/Functional_Programming_and_Parallel_Graph_Rewriting

On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Tommy Thorn <tt1729 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> You beat me to it although I'd reverse the order of your list.
>
> Also I wouldn't ignore the classic,
> http://www.amazon.com/Compilers-Principles-Techniques-Tools-Edition/dp/0321486811
> but know that it has next to nothing useful specific to FP languages,
> and certainly not lazy languages.
>
> Tommy
>
> On Apr 7, 2013, at 07:40 , Kristopher Micinski <krismicinski at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I disagree about the recommendation for Modern Compiler Design: I
>> found it to be a pretty good introduction to compiler technology, but
>> not functional programming with compilers, it's coverage was *very*
>> shallow.
>>
>> By contrast, I can recommend both Compiling with Continuations (the
>> "standard" text on implementing compilers in functional languages,
>> using ML as an example), and The Implementation of Functional
>> Programming Languages [2].
>>
>> This topic is covered pretty well in course material scattered
>> throughout the web, (lots of course with online pdf sets about
>> implementing functional compilers), but not in a comprehensive fashion
>> that talks about more complex aspects of compiling functional
>> languages.  Implementing Functional Langauges: a tutorial, is also
>> excellent and worth a look.
>>
>> kris
>>
>> [1] http://www.amazon.com/Compiling-Continuations-Andrew-W-Appel/dp/052103311X
>> [2] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/slpj-book-1987/index.htm
>> [3] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/Papers/pj-lester-book/
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 4:36 AM, Sergey Bushnyak
>> <sergey.bushnyak at sigrlami.eu> wrote:
>>> Books about compilers is rare artifact, in comparison to some technology
>>> books. It is uncommon to see topics on compilers for functional languages.
>>>
>>> I was surprised, when saw it in "Modern Compiler Design", which I've
>>> mentioned earlier. "Compiler design" series from Springer maybe reveal
>>> topics on FL in future as it become more popular. In new books about 1/5 of
>>> it is about FL, but very basic stuff.
>>>
>>> Кnowledge mostly lies in research papers, occasional articles like "The
>>> Glasgow Haskell Compiler"[1] in AOSA from creators, and source code :)
>>>
>>>
>>> [1] http://www.aosabook.org/en/ghc.html
>>>
>>> --
>>> Best regards,
>>> Sergey Bushnyak
>>>
>>>
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