Re: Some Guidance for a newbie

If you can find a copy of it anywhere, I'd suggest "Mathematical
Methods in Linguistics", by Robert E. Wall, Alicer TerMeulin and
Barbera Partee. The context of the book is formal linguistics so the
formalisms and presentation is a bit of a departure from computer
science. But the latter half of the book is one of the best surveys of
the Chomsky hierarchy I've read so far. Not too relentlessly formal
but at the same time, not too shallow.....


LS


"James Sullivan" <jsulliva77@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> Hello, I am just getting started into Compiler design and am looking
> for some resource suggestions or mini-project ideas. I am currently
> reading Grune's book "Modern Compiler Design" and have purchased the
> so-called "Red Dragon" book. After reading chapter 2 of Grune, I
> realized I needed to better understand grammars. This has led me to
> Linz's "Introduction to Formal Languages and Automata".
>
> Any further suggestions would be appreciated. I have a masters in
> Mathematics, so I wont shy away from books that appreciate
> abstraction.

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