yacc & lex intro books?

Michael J. Farren farren at gethen.UUCP
Thu Mar 24 02:53:50 AEST 1988


In article <10023 at steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> davidsen at crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>_Introduction to Compiler Construction with UNIX_
>
>ISBN 0-13-474396-2

I found this book to be fairly uninstructive and impenetrable, with
examples that were less clear than the text it was supposed to 
illuminate (and that text was pretty muddy to start with).  I learned
one hell of a lot more about lex and yacc from playing around with
'em, plus liberal reference to the Dragon book, than I did from this
one.  NOT recommended.

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