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Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools by [Alfred V. Aho, Monica S. Lam, Jeffrey D. Ullman, Ravi Sethi]

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Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools, known to professors, students, and developers worldwide as the "Dragon Book," is available in a new edition. Every chapter has been completely revised to reflect developments in software engineering, programming languages, and computer architecture that have occurred since 1986, when the last edition published. The authors, recognizing that few readers will ever go on to construct a compiler, retain their focus on the broader set of problems faced in software design and software development.

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Alfred V. Aho is Lawrence Gussman Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. Professor Aho has won several awards including the Great Teacher Award for 2003 from the Society of Columbia Graduates and the IEEE John von Neumann Medal. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the ACM and IEEE.

Monica S. Lam is a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, was the Chief Scientist at Tensilica and the founding CEO of moka5. She led the SUIF project which produced one of the most popular research compilers, and pioneered numerous compiler techniques used in industry.

Ravi Sethi launched the research organization in Avaya and is president of Avaya Labs. Previously, he was a senior vice president at Bell Labs in Murray Hill and chief technical officer for communications software at Lucent Technologies. He has held teaching positions at the Pennsylvania State University and the University of Arizona, and has taught at Princeton University and Rutgers. He is a fellow of the ACM.

Jeffrey Ullman is CEO of Gradiance and a Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. His research interests include database theory, database integration, data mining, and education using the information infrastructure. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a fellow of the ACM, and winner of the Karlstrom Award and Knuth Prize.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pearson; 2nd edition (January 11, 2011)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 11, 2011
Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Alfred Vaino Aho (born August 9, 1941) is a Canadian computer scientist best known for his work on programming languages, compilers, and related algorithms, and his textbooks on the art and science of computer programming.
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Jeffrey David "Jeff" Ullman (born November 22, 1942) is a computer scientist and professor at Stanford University. His textbooks on compilers (various editions are popularly known as the Dragon Book), theory of computation (also known as the Cinderella book), data structures, and databases are regarded as standards in their fields.
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EvaPort is selling books that are not authorized for sale in the USA.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 25, 2023

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EvaPort is selling books that are not authorized for sale in the USA. On the back cover it says this edition is for the international market. The book has no opening page with an ISBN number and the like. The foot note of every Chapter says it is a reproduction of the US edition. All chapters are there.

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B.K.

A very well-written book.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 13, 2016

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I'm a senior Computer Science student and will be taking a course on compilers in the upcoming quarter. I was incredibly excited to see this book listed for the course, because it has a legendary status. If you watch some of the Microsoft's compiler related videos, for example, you can see this book sitting in the background in some of the videos. My school has made some poor choices with books for other courses... needless to say, I was very happy to see this one.

I bought this book well ahead of time, because the subject of compilers is not an easy one. Luckily, I just completed a course on Formal Languages & Automata, so some of the things involved in the compilation process is less frightening for me than they would be otherwise. However, I knew I would have to get a good head-start to do well in class, but also to truly learn and understand the subject. This book is very well written and I've gotten far enough into it to comfortably comment on it. As far as theory-packed books are concerned, this one is top-notch. The authors made it very approachable and it doesn't feel like they're trying to bloat the content with academic nonsense in order to place themselves on a pedestal above all else. No, I can confidently say that they've done an amazing job in making it as friendly as possible. With that said, and as I've mentioned, this is not an easy topic. Unless you're exceptionally amazing at comprehending complex material through the first read-through, expect to read this book a few times. On the bright side, it's a pretty good read and you will learn a lot from it.

If you have the right mindset and the necessary passion, this is the book for you. The authors have done a fantastic job and you will not regret investing time into it.

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Andrew Whitworth

Classic, indispensable text.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 20, 2015

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The Dragon Book, as it is affectionately named, is something of a legendary resource among programmers and computer-science students. Not only is it one of the only references on the subject of compilers as a whole, but it's very well-written and contains a huge amount of information. It considers tricky subjects like lexing and parsing in a serious theoretical way but also includes some precious code examples.

Initially when I bought this book because I was nervous about the new edition. The previous 1986 edition with the quaint illustration of the red dragon was the bench-mark gold standard for compiler texts, and I was worried that the new edition (with it's digitally animated cover, which loses much of the charm of the original) would be marred by loses and compromises. That anxiety was ill-founded. The new edition is every bit as wonderful and complete as the previous version was, with valuable information updated but nothing that I can see that is lost.

One small complaint I might have, and this is not something that the authors could control, is that some important new developments have been made in the world of compilers and interpreters in the past few years. Things like PEG (Packrat parsing and OMeta), parser combinators and compound grammars are all new in the front-end world, While the state of the art in interpreters and VMs is leading to things like JIT which are turning out to be of central importance in many places but which are barely mentioned in this book at all.

Anyway, on balance this is an excellent book and one that is well worth buying if you're interested in compilers, interpreters, VMs or other infrastructure components like that. This is a must-read if you're interested in working on a major existing compiler project or if you would like to dabble with your own little language or language runtime.

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David

Don't buy it new

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The book itself is great. I am finding it to be very helpful in my understanding of the topics covered. I bought it new as the listing said that new copies include any online content or supplemental downloads. However, the links for online content are broken. The email address to ask about online content no longer appeared valid. The "new" copy also had scratches and dings in the cover. The cover also had some sticky residue left over from where some stickers had been removed. The pages themselves appeared pristine and untouched. I'd give the book itself 5 stars but I reduced it to 3 because I didn't really get what I paid for. I paid for new but basically got a used book

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Erich Blume

DO NOT BUY the kindle version - many errors!

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Aho, Ullman et. al's "Compilers" is a fantastic book and well worth studying for all computer programmers - implementing a compiler compiler will yield tangental benefits to anyone who writes programs for a living or for fun.

However, the Amazon Kindle edition of this book is *awful*. First and foremost, I discovered at least one error in an algorithm that is not present in the standard edition that causes the book's proposed algorithms to be incorrect (in this case, it was algorithm 4.31 - in step 1, you should compute FIRST(alpha), not FIRST(A).)

On top of that, there are spacing issues and font issues throughout the book. It appears that in many places where the standard edition had a word separated across lines, the Kindle edition merely has that word split in two with a space between its halves. Worse, the font choice used to typeset algorithms doesn't easily distinguish many greek lowercase letters from their modern English equivalents, the result being that it is fiendishly difficult to understand some algorithms (the book uses greek letters to indicate a 'sentential form', so they appear a *lot* and tend to be right next to their modern equivalents.)

In other words, I would give Compilers (the Standard edition) a 5/5 (or maybe a 4/5 - it could stand to use a bit more real-world code), but this Kindle edition is rubbish and you SHOULD NOT BUY.

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Pierce

Don't buy kindle edition!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 16, 2023

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I can't speak for the hardback, but the kindle edition is, to be perfectly blunt, a scam. There's nothing but a mess of random characters: I think the formatting went wrong somewhere. I mean, I should've expected it, expecting to get a textbook for that price 😅
Have 'returned' am expecting to receive a full refund very very soon.

MH

An Indian contenant version of the classic Dragon Book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 15, 2015

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This review refers NOT to the original 2006 edition but to the 2014 re-print by Pearson India, via DKIndia. ISBN - 978-93-325-1866-7. The inside page of this book reads "This edition is authorised for sale only in India, BanglAdesh, Bhutan, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Maldives. Circulation of this edition outside of these territories is UNAUTHORISED." Therefore this edition should not be available to us in the UK.

The back of this Indian edition is even more ominous where it says "For these special editions, the editorial team at Pearson has collaborated with educators across the world to address a wide range of subjects and requirements, equipping students with the best possible learning tools" (MH so far so good). It continues ....

"This international edition preserves the cutting-edge approach and pedagogy of the original, BUT MAY ALSO FEATURE ALTERATIONS, CUSTOMIZATION AND ADAPTATIONS FROM THE UNITED STATES VERSION" (Caps MH).

This is somewhat concerning, as there is no indication within the book what has been changed, altered or customised!

So what is the actual condition of the the book itself.

Well the binding is OK, but looks a little flimsy, however inside the type quality is not very good, with frequent smudges and a very faint text. The paper quality is not very good either and to be honest the book does not look like it will last very long, without falling apart.

Unfortunately having never had an opportunity to read the original, I don't know how close this edition is. Also some readers have reported on the reviews below, that some of the algorithms are wrong. Again I don't know the validity of these statements. But I will raise this with Amazon in the morning.

So if you are going to buy this book from the sellers, then be aware that almost all of them are from India and therefore it is highly likely that you will receive an edition that is the same as my one.

In fairness these may be perfectly good copies of the original, but we should be made aware before we purchase them that these are Indian editions and that the quality might not be up to what we are normally used to, and even more importantly, there may be some additions, alterations or customisations to the test.

LET THE BUYER BEWARE.

KR
MH/

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Jason

My bookshelf is more beautiful

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on December 18, 2013

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The "Dragon" book makes any bookshelf look more beautiful, and is great for photo shoots and job applications.

Also, if you read the book your IQ will be increased by 3 points.

But seriously, this book is very well written. Compilers are not simple by any stretch of the imagination, but this book does well to explain them in detail. No previous knowledge or awareness of compilers is required, though a good understanding of programming is essential. I bought this book as a required text for a course, and by the end felt a much better appreciation for compilers.

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Loïc

Great book

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on April 19, 2020

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Great book as expected from the Dragon Book.

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VAIBHAV GUPTA

A Must Buy Book.

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on August 15, 2017

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The "Dragon" Book.I just love it.Great product which was delivered with a lightning speed from Amazon.in

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