Book: "Compilers and Compiler Generators: An Introduction using C++"

I am pleased to announce that my new book has now been published:


      Compilers and Compiler Generators: An Introduction using C++


      P.D. Terry, Rhodes University


      ISBN 1-85032-298-8
      International Thomson Computer Press, 1997


This has been written to support a practically oriented course in
programming language translation, focussing on LL(1) parsing, and the
use both of hand-crafted methods and the tool Coco/R.


For those who do not know, Coco/R generates recursive descent parsers
and their associated scanners from attribute grammars. Coco/R,
developed originally by Hanspeter Moessenboeck in Linz, is extremely
easy to use. While not a toy, it is ideally suited to introductory
courses.


A prime aim of the book has been to provide a sufficient level of
theory without overwhelming the reader with too much mathematical
detail, and to provide extensive case studies and exercises to capture
the reader's interest.


C++ is used for the text's illustrations, although source code for all
of the case studies is provided on a accompanying disk in each of C++,
Modula-2 and Turbo Pascal. This code is also available by ftp from


    cs.ru.ac.za/pub/languages/textbook (Source code and Coco/R executables)
    cs.ru.ac.za/pub/languages/coco (Full Coco/R kits)
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