# What is a Compiler: History and Structure
- Some Notes about What is a Compiler (google slides) (opens new window) (pdf)
- What is a Compiler? slides by Eelco Visser. TU Delft. September 2018
- What is a linker?
# Complementary References
- OO History: Simula and Smalltalk (opens new window)
- Some History of Functional Programming Languages (opens new window) by D. A. Turner. University of Kent & Middlesex University