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From: johnl@ima.BU.EDU
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Subject: Re: compiler books... [from my bookshelf]
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Date: Tue, 21-Jul-87 23:57:48 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 21 23:57:48 1987
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Two I haven't seen mentioned before are (sorry I don't have the exact titles,
but I don't have the books with me just know):

	... something about Parsing: Theory and Practice ...
	Roland C. Backhouse

		Talks about parsing only.  Use graph-theory techniques,
		with a lot of stuff about good error-recovery.  I wrote
		one parser this way and found it was slow, but it's quite
		interesting.  Mostly deals with top-down parsing.

	Compiler Design Theory		(I think that's it)
	Lewis, Rosenkrantz, and Stearns.
	IBS Series.
		
		Good coverage of LL techniques.  Also covers code generation,
		etc, though not extensively, and not particularly with the
		most up-to-date ideas.  Uses mini-BASIC as a sample language
		(ugh).  I thought it was pretty clear though, with lots
		of practical info.

Mark Wittenberg
Relational Technology, Inc.
Alameda, CA
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