Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools

Furthermore, and even worse, it has some serious organizational problems. It reads like a the author decided to publish the notes he sketched out before actually writing the book. From beginning to end, this book is just a long list of ideas. No real structure. No overarching lessons or conclusions drawn. It's just a 796 page pile of information and it's left up to you to find the good stuff (which, unfortunately makes up about 20% of the book). These guys needed to cut back on trying to cover everything under the sun and work more on giving this book some structure and coherence, which it sorely lacks.


A classic text in the industry!   März 18, 2000
Richard Callaby (Bradenton, Florida)
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This is *the* text for complier design in the computer industry. Referred to in popular media as the dragon book it has an almost religous following by the great programmers in the industry. This exhaustive text will introduce advance topics to the intermediate programmer and to the experienced alike. Although not an introductory work by any stretch of the imagination it will allow for the intermediate programmer to get a rudimentary grasp of the subject. A great example of the best writing that can be done by some of the great minds of our field.