[LameRubberDucky]

Well that's great to know. I just bought the dragon book. Is there a better book out there?

[pjmlp]

It is still a pretty damm book to read about compilers, if not anything else, at least from historical perspective.

The Tiger book, "Compiling with Continuations" and "Lisp in Small Pieces" are some of my favourite ones.

Then if you want to learn about language semantics validation, "Formal Syntax and Semantics of Programming Languages: A Laboratory Based Approach".