Andy Keep - Writing a Nanopass Compiler

Why it was recommended

Andrew Keep has a great talk on this approach [2].

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What it covers

Andy Keep's Clojure/Conj talk on writing a nanopass compiler, built from many single-task passes with formally defined intermediate languages. It covers the framework's. It is for someone who already knows the basic terms and wants the next step.

Video details

Channel

ClojureTV

Length

40 min 48 sec

Year

2014

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