[JackMorgan]

So clearly you are not the class of person I have ever dealt with in the past. It would be an incredible breath of fresh air to work with someone who cares enough about their work to write their own compiler for it.

Right now I'm working through SICP, having just finished PLAI, do you have any suggestions for a book on compilers I could do next? I was recently steered away from the dragon book as it's "missing a lot of recent compiler research", but that person had no good alternative.

I think there is definitely three main groups of software people: those that wire together languages and frameworks, those that write languages and frameworks, and those that use a tiny subset of languages to do research. My problem is I think I've been heading down the path of learning that leads more to the second, and you sound like someone who manages to do a job similar to mine, but by being good at that second far more interesting path. I'd be really interested to hear any advice you have. Do you basically have to just work alone?

[playing_colours]

I found this book on compilers to be rather up-to-date, clear and useful when you start going into the topic: http://www.amazon.com/Engineering-Compiler-Second-Edition-Co...