Pabbisetty.henr@xerox.com (Nagesh Pabbisetty) (01/16/89)
Folks, Sometime aog, I had requested for references/tutorials for awk, lex and yacc. I received a lot of responses. THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO RESPONDED! I have summarized the responses. I chose UPE (K&R) for introductions, #2 in AWK list and #2 in "LEX & YACC" list. Good Luck. Nagesh 716-427-1827 / 5458 ------------------------------------------------------- AWK: ---- 1. Unix Programming Environment by Kernighan and Ritchie Pretice Hall. Inc., ISBN 0-13-937681-X (See Chapter 4) 2. The Awk Programming Language by Alfred V. Aho, Brian W. Kernighan, and Peter J. Weinberger Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-07981-X LEX & YACC: ----------- 1. Unix Programming Environment by Kernighan and Ritchie Pretice Hall. Inc., ISBN 0-13-937681-X (See Chapter 8) 2. "Introduction to Compiler Construction with UNIX", by Axel T. Schreiner and H. George Friedman, Jr. Prectice-Hall, Inc. ISBN 0-13-474396-2 3. Yacc: Yet Another Compiler Compiler by Steven C. Johnson UNIX Programmer's Manual HRW. 4. PCYACC 2.0 Abraxas Software, Inc. 7033 SW Macadam Ave., Portland, OR 97219 5. BISON---The YACC-compatible Parser Generator Charles Donnelly and Richard M. Stallman FSF 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, Tel: (617) 876-3296 6. See Apollo documentation for tutorials. 7. Try Sun manuals 8. Joys of Lex. (no other details) 9. "A Walk Through AWK" published a couple of years ago in the SIGPLAN Notices is the single best introduction I had seen to awk. He treated it like an ordinary language first and THEN introduced the wierd features, WITH AN EXPLANATION! 10. Eric Allman recently wrote a couple of articles in "UNIX Review"(sometime in mid- to late-1988) magazine that delved into yacc.
lang@pearl.PRC.Unisys.COM (Francois-Michel Lang) (01/17/89)
In article <18108@adm.BRL.MIL>, Pabbisetty.henr@xerox.com (Nagesh Pabbisetty) writes:
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+ Folks,
+
+ Sometime aog, I had requested for references/tutorials for awk, lex and
+ yacc. I received a lot of responses.
... including ...
+ 9. "A Walk Through AWK" published a couple of years ago in the SIGPLAN
+ Notices is
+ the single best introduction I had seen to awk. He treated it like an
+ ordinary
+ language first and THEN introduced the wierd features, WITH AN EXPLANATION!
Does anyone have the reference to the SIGPLAN Notice in question?
Our library is missing some issues, and I don't particularly
want to do a linear search through all that we have.
Any pointers will be appreciated.
I also have a copy of an interesting document called
"A Supplemental Document for AWK,
or,
Things Al, Pete, and Brian Didn't Mention Much"
by John W. Pierce. This document details a number
of bugs and undocumented features in AWK.
I don't know where it came from, but lots of folks
around here have copies.
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Francois-Michel Lang
Paoli Research Center, Unisys Corporation lang@prc.unisys.com (215) 648-7256
Dept of Comp & Info Science, U of PA lang@cis.upenn.edu (215) 898-9511piet@ruuinf (Piet van Oostrum) (01/18/89)
In article <8968@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM>, lang@pearl (Francois-Michel Lang) writes:
`+ 9. "A Walk Through AWK" published a couple of years ago in the SIGPLAN
`+ Notices is
`+ the single best introduction I had seen to awk. He treated it like an
`+ ordinary
`+ language first and THEN introduced the wierd features, WITH AN EXPLANATION!
`
`Does anyone have the reference to the SIGPLAN Notice in question?
It is Sigplan Notices, vol 18 # 12, Dec 1983, p69--85
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Piet van Oostrum, Dept of Computer Science, University of Utrecht
Padualaan 14, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands
Telephone: +31-30-531806. piet@cs.ruu.nl (mcvax!hp4nl!ruuinf!piet)ditto@cbmvax.UUCP (Michael "Ford" Ditto) (01/19/89)
In article <18108@adm.BRL.MIL> Pabbisetty.henr@xerox.com (Nagesh Pabbisetty) writes: >1. Unix Programming Environment > by Kernighan and Ritchie > Pretice Hall. Inc., ISBN 0-13-937681-X This book was written by Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike. -- -=] Ford [=- "The number of Unix installations (In Real Life: Mike Ditto) has grown to 10, with more expected." ford@kenobi.cts.com - The Unix Programmer's Manual, ...!sdcsvax!crash!elgar!ford 2nd Edition, June, 1972. ditto@cbmvax.commodore.com