Compiler Construction (International Computer Science Series) by Niklaus Wirth (PDF)

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A refreshing antidote to heavy theoretical tomes, this book is a concise, practical guide to modern compiler design and construction by an acknowledged master. Readers are taken step-by-step through each stage of compiler design, using the simple yet powerful method of recursive descent to create a compiler for Oberon-0, a subset of the author’s Oberon language. The hands-on, pragmatic approach makes the book equally attractive for project-oriented courses in compiler design and for software engineers wishing to develop their skills in system software. A disk provided with the book gives full listings of the Oberon-0 compiler and associated tools. There is a bug in the installation of this disk, to correct please do the following: *Open the file install.inf in a text editor (e.g. Notepad), this file is found in the win_sys directory. *Scroll down until you find a section marked (files), this is the second last section and is very close to the bottom of the file. *Find the line readme.w

User’s Reviews

Editorial Reviews: About the Author Niklaus Wirth is Professor in the Department of Computer Science of the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich.

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐This book has helped me with every stage of writing my compiler. The only downside is that since it was written in 1975, it came with a floppy disk!!! Which I have no way of reading the data off of without buying a drive online.

⭐Professor Wirth made an interesting introduction course in Compiler construction. He follows the same kind descriptive stile he used on his legendary book “Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs” developing a PL/O virtual machine, P-code, and compiler.This time he do the same, but now using a RISC ideal machine similar (on its programming model) to Patterson & Hennessy DLX processor (Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approarch,

⭐). The RISC machine is beautiful and basic. An OBERON program module implementing an Interpreter for this RISC machine is included.The book cover basic topics like: BNF, a reference to N. Chomsky formal description of languages, and compiler architecture (front-end, back-end).OBERON programming language is similar to Pascal.I recommend very much to expose you to basic programming environments like this, as a complement to your normal work with new development technologies like .NET framework and Java framework.Also, I recommend you the following self-instruction path:1)

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⭐Another good intro to computer organization and general assembly language programming is:

⭐The book is concise and is only 175 pages thick. It doesn’t get heavy into theory, but just enough for you understand Wirth’s implementation of a compiler for his programming language call “Oberon-0”. One might assume this a beginner’s book or for those that never study compiler design or theory, but it is not. Wirth’s style of writing sometimes is hard to follow unless you have some understanding of compiler construction theory. He moves along at a quick pace. If you understand some basic compiler theory, this book will teach you HOW to implement a compiler, else set the book outside, pour gasoline on it and lite a match.

⭐I enjoyed reading this book. I have read several books on the topic and this is one of my favourite introduction.Obviously it is not as comprehensive as “Compilers Principles, Techniques and Tools” but in 180 pages, you’ll learn the basics of compiler constructions.The book uses Oberon as the sample language. I had no problem with the choice because Oberon is close to other popular languages, starting with Pascal. And yet I confess I never wrote a single line of Oberon code…

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