Compiler Design and Construction

By A. Pyster

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0442275366
• ISBN13: 9780442275365
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold 1988
• Length: 267 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.5" x 1.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Helped me get started writing parsers

The first review of this book caused me to write this. I first read this book in 1979 when I needed to write a parser for my computer simulation to read in the data. I also have the "dragon" book (purchased much later), and other theoretical books. I took a graduate course in formal languages and automata a few years before I got this book. I had used parsers and parser generators written by others before I tried to write my own, so I had some experience and educational background. But this book got me over the practical bumps in the road that college courses and other books ignored. The issues of managing and reacting to errors, when and how to insert semantic processing functions, expression evaluation, etc., were all covered here. I still have this book and read it over from time to time. It helped me write my first LR(0) parser and has helped me in many practical ways since then.