Re: Dragon Book - update necessary?

Ian Elliott wrote:


> Pred.writes


> >Are there any new Dragons on the way?


> I have just bought Dick Grune et al's new book "Modern Compiler
> Design" which, by the way, I find highly readable (just as I did Grune
> and Jacobs "Parsing Techniques - a practical guide" which they made
> available on the net for free when the copyright reverted to them) and
> on page 48 of the new work they say: "The most famous compiler
> construction book ever is doubtlessly [Dragon Book]; unfortunately, no
> modern edition of it is to be expected." I don't know how they know.


Well, the problem of course is that the Dragon Book is full of examples
in Fortran, PL/I, Algol 60 and COBOL - oh, yeah, and a few in C.


Obviously, a compiler book with so little about C++ wouldn't sell very
well these days.


BTW, here's the smiley -> ;-)
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