Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (2nd Edition) 2nd Edition

by Alfred V. Aho (Author),‎ Monica S. Lam (Author),‎ Ravi Sethi (Author),‎

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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: Addison Wesley; 2nd edition (September 10, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0321486811
ISBN-13: 978-0321486813
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Erich Blume

DO NOT BUY the kindle version - many errors!

January 13, 2012

Format: Kindle EditionVerified Purchase

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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1/4 star: DRM means that you will eventually LOSE this book just as if you left it on the train. Worse. It ceases to exist.

November 20, 2017

Format: Kindle EditionVerified Purchase

Buy the hard copy. I added this to my library because its one of *the* reference books for a computer science major. Unfortunately, over a hundred dollars was spent on something I cannot use at all. Why? Because the publisher limits it to two simultaneous devices that I no longer have.

I wiped the devices when I got rid of them. The Fire to the store, and the old IPad to a former colleague.

This is exactly why DRM is bad. If this had been a hardcopy book I would not be out over $100. Shame on Pearson for, pardon the pun, draconian restrictions. Its not like a real book which is why YOU SHOULD NOT BUY IT.

If Aho condoned this then he should be severely ashamed.

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Eric

Don’t buy. Extremely low limit on number of devices you can use to read it!

December 25, 2017

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This is an extremely useful book if you’re interested in writing compilers, but the Kindle version is worthless due to the extremely low limit on the number of devices on which you can read it. Each time I go to read it, I get an error saying I can’t read it on the device I’m using because I have it on too many other devices. So, I have to figure out which devices I read it on earlier so I can delete it from one of those devices and then download it on the device I’m using now. It does give me the option of buying the book again for the privilidge of reading the book I already own on a different device. You need a device to read it just like you need light to read a normal book. Am I limited to the number of lamps I can use to read a hard copy? As best I can tell, the limit is two. That’s way too low. I can’t give it any more than 1 star because it’s such a nuisance to be able to use the book. That’s sad because the content is quite good.

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Andrew Whitworth

Classic, indispensable text.

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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Cheap material, but what do you expect from a cheap international version. Content is great, so 5/5.

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