Re: Having trouble finding texts on compiler construction.

Ray Dillinger <bear@sonic.net>
Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:28:50 -0700

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From: Ray Dillinger <bear@sonic.net>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 10:28:50 -0700
Organization: Organized? Seems unlikely.
References: 09-04-015 09-04-043
Keywords: books
Posted-Date: 24 Apr 2009 06:48:08 EDT

Ryan McCoskrie <ryan.mccoskrie@gmail.com> writes:
>
> I'm trying to find some good text on compiler construction that don't
> explain things in terms of visual information (trees etcetera) and
> maths(which boils down to processing visual information).




Boy, math is so utterly fundamental to my comprehension of the subject
that I can't imagine explaining it without math.


But math is also "Language" rather than "Image", at least as I experience
it. It took me a few moments to think of why you might experience it as
image. I'm guessing that you're having trouble with mathematical notation?


Do you have trouble with the mathematical notation being too "visual"
with respect to operations expressed by the relative locations and sizes
of terms? If that's the case would rewriting it with some kind of
text-based linear syntax (as in a programming language) help you?






                                                                Bear



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