is there a simple compiler for a small language

Question

I am looking for a simple compiler that compiles a simple language, I need it to write a paper about it and to learn how compilers work, I am not looking for a sophisticated thi

Answer 1

LISPes (Scheme, etc) are the simplest actual languages. You can look how to build a primitive Scheme interpreter in perl with this book (paper version here on Lulu). Parsing, type checking are similar in interpreters and compilers. Then, here is a more hardcore book on the compiler design subject (also available as dead tree on Lulu).