If you're interested in this topic, I can highly recommend the book Crafting Interpreters.
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Also, the author has a standalone blog post on the topic from 2011, Expression Parsing Made Easy.
That's a great article, thanks. In his book, he just sticks to recursive descent parsers and doesn't get into Pratt parsers, but I think it's a great introduction to interpreters.
thank you