How to make a compiler give me ideas

Question

I want to learn how to make compiler.

Answer 1

Personally, I suggest getting free compiler source code and read it. I learned a lot reading a Pascal compiler source so I could write my own for a different language. It is a relatively simple language so reading it wasn't very hard. Here is a link to a newer one:
https://homepages.cwi.nl/~steven/pascal/pcom.p