[neatcoder]

Any recommendations for introductory text for writing compilers and interpreters?

[pjmlp]

You can start by reading these ones,

"Let's Build a Compiler", by Jack Crenshaw

https://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/

"Compiler Construction" by Niklaus Wirth

http://www.ethoberon.ethz.ch/WirthPubl/CBEAll.pdf

Then you can follow up with "Project Oberon (New Edition 2013)" by Niklaus Wirth, for the whole stack experience

https://inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/ProjectOberon/index.html

[LiberalArtist]

I think "Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation" does much of what you want: in particular, it takes the view that "from our perspective parsing is mostly a distraction, because we want to study the parts of programming languages that are not parsing." The author, Shriram Krishnamurthi, puts the complete text online for free at http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs173/2012/book/

[w23j]

http://www.craftinginterpreters.com/

[Silhouette]

What sort of language are you interested in implementing? Once you've got past the lexing and parsing stages, the implementation strategy can be quite different for, say, a functional-style language and an imperative OO-style language, so it would be helpful to know more and then perhaps some of us could suggest suitable material.

[neatcoder]

Preferably something with the syntax of Java.

[yvdriess]

His point is that syntax is nearly the most irrelevant part of language implementation.

- "I want to build a house"

- "OK, what kind of house"

- "Preferably red"