What is a Compiler: History and Structure

• Some Notes about What is a Compiler (google slides) (opens new window) (pdf)
• What is a Compiler? slides by Eelco Visser. TU Delft. September 2018
• What is a linker?

Complementary References

• OO History: Simula and Smalltalk (opens new window)
• Some History of Functional Programming Languages (opens new window) by D. A. Turner. University of Kent & Middlesex University

What is a Compiler: Looking Inside Some JS Compilers

• Examples with Esprima
• More Advanced examples from the talk Master the Art of the AST