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		Tinned_Tuna on April 6, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Must Read CS Books For Self Self-Taught Programmer... I can't remember who said it, but "If you can write a compiler, you can write any program." Hence, I'd get compiler books. Modern Compiler Implementation in Standard ML, SICP has a couple of sections on compilation, there's a computational theory book that I don't have on hand which would be useful to this end too.

arethuza on April 6, 2011 [–]

I happened to be looking at Tony 'Quicksort' Hoare's page at Microsoft Research and I noticed this:

"His research goal was to understand why operating systems were so much more difficult than compilers"

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/thoare/

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