Re: Something "simpler" than the Dragon Book

albaugh@agames.com (Mike Albaugh)
28 Jul 1999 01:52:47 -0400

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From: albaugh@agames.com (Mike Albaugh)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 28 Jul 1999 01:52:47 -0400
Organization: Atari Games Corporation
References: 99-07-119
Keywords: books

Susan Thibodeau (smct@frontiernet.net) wrote:
: I am looking for a book on compilers/interpreters that covers lexical
: and syntax analysis, code generation, etc..


It has been a while since I read it, but I liked (as in,
could understand great chunks of without feeling stupid) J.A.N. Lee's
"Anatomy of a compiler" As a much earlier book than the Dragon Books,
it is IMHO a "gentler introduction". Or maybe it was just that I needed
yet _another_ way to look at lexers and parsers, before that NFA/DFA
stuff I dozed through in class sunk in :-)


OTOH, it was written back when Fortran was pretty new, so don't
expect code-sample in MFC :-)


Mike
| albaugh@agames.com, speaking only for myself


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