amen@quequeg.UUCP (Bob Amen) (03/19/88)
After attempting to wade through the yacc and lex manuals (papers) I am wondering if anyone out there knows of a good introductory book on either or both of these topics. Something along the lines of Kernighan & Pike would be nice. Please Email me any ideas/suggestion you might have. Thanks, Bob -- Bob Amen (amen@quequeg.UUCP) (+1 301 338-6329) Chesapeake Bay Institute/The Johns Hopkins University
davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr) (03/22/88)
_Introduction to Compiler Construction with UNIX_
ISBN 0-13-474396-2
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -mefarren@gethen.UUCP (Michael J. Farren) (03/24/88)
In article <10023@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes: >_Introduction to Compiler Construction with UNIX_ > >ISBN 0-13-474396-2 I found this book to be fairly uninstructive and impenetrable, with examples that were less clear than the text it was supposed to illuminate (and that text was pretty muddy to start with). I learned one hell of a lot more about lex and yacc from playing around with 'em, plus liberal reference to the Dragon book, than I did from this one. NOT recommended. -- Michael J. Farren | "INVESTIGATE your point of view, don't just {ucbvax, uunet, hoptoad}! | dogmatize it! Reflect on it and re-evaluate unisoft!gethen!farren | it. You may want to change your mind someday." gethen!farren@lll-winken.llnl.gov ----- Tom Reingold, from alt.flame
rbj@icst-cmr.arpa (Root Boy Jim) (04/19/88)
From: "Michael J. Farren" <farren@gethen.uucp> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes: >_Introduction to Compiler Construction with UNIX_ > >ISBN 0-13-474396-2 I found this book to be fairly uninstructive and impenetrable, with examples that were less clear than the text it was supposed to illuminate (and that text was pretty muddy to start with). I learned one hell of a lot more about lex and yacc from playing around with 'em, plus liberal reference to the Dragon book, than I did from this one. NOT recommended. I'm afraid I must agree. This book really jumps into the meat of things rapidly. While I generally appreciate this technique, I feel it a bit exaggerated here. Perhaps this book should be twice as thick. (Root Boy) Jim Cottrell <rbj@icst-cmr.arpa> National Bureau of Standards Flamer's Hotline: (301) 975-5688 The opinions expressed are solely my own and do not reflect NBS policy or agreement Do I have a lifestyle yet?