Comment by siraben

Yeah it might help to see how things are implemented, for instance, even SICP can be a good foundation for this, since they also have interpreters and compilers and talk about things like "primitives" and "derived forms" and grammars.

Essentials of Programming Languages is very implementation driven and they implement a wide variety of interpreters for untyped languages, typed languages, concurrent, imperative, continuation-passing, object-oriented and more.