Tutorial: Comments on Hand-crafting a compiler

[Jon A. Lambert]

Seeing the recent interest in mud compilers generating byte-code 
or native code, I thought I'd post Robert Crenshaw's tutorial on hand 
crafting a compiler.  I did not have any formal schooling in 
compiler theory and neither the patience or time to wade through vast 
tomes of arcane compiler lore and even more alien terminology.  So
this tutorial, although incomplete, was quite a useful starting point 
for myself.  I'll post it over the next week since there are about 
16 installments.  Any comments on its flaws will be appreciated. 
Enjoy.

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