Re: OO compiler design ?

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2 Feb 1997 21:15:03 -0500

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From: <SCHMIDTG@iccgcc.cle.ab.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 2 Feb 1997 21:15:03 -0500
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 97-01-136 97-01-237
Keywords: OOP, design, books

Our moderator wrote:


re "Building your own compiler with C++" by Jim Holmes, Prentice Hall. 1995
>[This book came up in discussion a few weeks ago, and the comments then
>said the use of C++ wasn't very good. Anyone else have an opinion? -John]


I wasn't impressed either. Perhaps these are nits, but the author
did not appear to know C++ very well (e.g. was clueless about how to
redirect iostream). Also, as I recall, the code seemed a bit overly
complex as the author implemented a special list class to represent
a simple list in which case his "node" class could have more naturally
represented it as a binary tree.


I found myself wanting to make notes in the book to the effect of "I
wouldn't do it this way, but this other way instead..."


I didn't learn anything by reading the book and the code within the
book. To be fair, this book might be a suitable starting point for
a rank beginner knowing little about lex, yacc, c++, and compilers
in general (although compiler_theory = 0 in this book).


-- Greg Schmidt


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