Re: Appel Book : Modern Compiler Implementation In C ??

d97roli@dtek.chalmers.se (Roger Lindsj|)
17 Nov 2000 23:47:29 -0500

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From: d97roli@dtek.chalmers.se (Roger Lindsj|)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 17 Nov 2000 23:47:29 -0500
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology
References: 00-11-084 00-11-111
Keywords: books
Posted-Date: 17 Nov 2000 23:47:29 EST

>Sahan Amarasekera <sahan_a@my-deja.com> wrote:
>: I am a complete beginner to compiler construction. I was wondering
>: whether the book Modern Compiler Implementation In C (the 1998, later
>: version) by Andrew W. Appel is a good book for me to begin with.


Mark Scott <mxs@dcs.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>However, I did find it informative despite its confusing nature.
>Some of this confusion may be because the C was not written by
>Appel - the book was orignally ML, and then translated to C and Java,
>so the C and Java are not great examples of how to code in those
>languages (the Java version uses few OO programming techniques).


I used this book when taking a compiler course, and found it quite
good. I had enough examples to get you started, and enough theory to
enable you to rewrite the (quite ugly) java code to more "proper"
java.


Roger Lindsjö

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