[attila-lendvai]

it wanders within a tight circle around C and its idiosyncrasies.

[mike_hock]

Probably by design.

> This book offers a one semester introduction [...] enabling the reader to build a simple compiler that accepts a *C-like language*

[trenchgun]

Then it is really not about language design... I would rather recommend https://www.plai.org/

[vkazanov]

As a lisper, i like PLAI and all the other books from the same school: Lisp in small pieces and many others.

But they also felt kind of detached from realities of industrial languages and compilers.

These days Crafting Interpreters is probably the best suggestion.

[xqb64]

Why that book specifically?

[whateverboat]

Also Practical Foundations for Programming Languages by Harper.