Compiler Construction: Principles and Practice

Rating:
Summary: a few serious flaws
Review: While overall this is an okay book, I feel there are several places where it was made overly complicated. All of the algorithms are explained by means of very poor psuedo code. After several hours of reading over the psuedo code for follow sets I still had no idea what was going on. My professor however was able to explain the concept to me in a few minutes. I think this book would have been far better if he also presented the algorithms in english or at least commented the psuedo code.