Introduction to Compiler Construction With Unix (Prentice-Hall software series)

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Summary: Useful and practical introduction to YACC/Lex
Review: This book supplies a practictioner with useful information to get moving quickly. It also manages to do so with a minimum of disorganization and chattiness that so plagues the O'Reilly book. I own both and rarely look outside this book's useful examples and clear typography.

Rating:
Summary: Useful and practical introduction to YACC/Lex
Review: This book supplies a practictioner with useful information to get moving quickly. It also manages to do so with a minimum of disorganization and chattiness that so plagues the O'Reilly book. I own both and rarely look outside this book's useful examples and clear typography.

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Summary: definitive LEX/YACC reference
Review: This book uses LEX and YACC to write a "realistic" language. It's approach is very practical, not much theory. If you want theory, then go read the "Dragon" book (Aho, et al.). It covers the error handling in YACC in detail and shows how to read the error output that is generated. It explains shift/reduce and reduce/reduce errors and how to recover from them. Like I said, it is very practical and far better than the Nutshell YACC/LEX book.

Rating:
Summary: definitive LEX/YACC reference
Review: This book uses LEX and YACC to write a "realistic" language. It's approach is very practical, not much theory. If you want theory, then go read the "Dragon" book (Aho, et al.). It covers the error handling in YACC in detail and shows how to read the error output that is generated. It explains shift/reduce and reduce/reduce errors and how to recover from them. Like I said, it is very practical and far better than the Nutshell YACC/LEX book.