Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools 2nd Edition by Alfred Aho (PDF)

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Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools, known to professors, students, and developers worldwide as the “Dragon Book,” is available in a new edition. Every chapter has been completely revised to reflect developments in software engineering, programming languages, and computer architecture that have occurred since 1986, when the last edition published. The authors, recognizing that few readers will ever go on to construct a compiler, retain their focus on the broader set of problems faced in software design and software development.

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Editorial Reviews: About the Author Alfred V. Aho is Lawrence Gussman Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. Professor Aho has won several awards including the Great Teacher Award for 2003 from the Society of Columbia Graduates and the IEEE John von Neumann Medal. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the ACM and IEEE. Monica S. Lam is a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, was the Chief Scientist at Tensilica and the founding CEO of moka5. She led the SUIF project which produced one of the most popular research compilers, and pioneered numerous compiler techniques used in industry. Ravi Sethi launched the research organization in Avaya and is president of Avaya Labs. Previously, he was a senior vice president at Bell Labs in Murray Hill and chief technical officer for communications software at Lucent Technologies. He has held teaching positions at the Pennsylvania State University and the University of Arizona, and has taught at Princeton University and Rutgers. He is a fellow of the ACM. Jeffrey Ullman is CEO of Gradiance and a Stanford W. Ascherman Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. His research interests include database theory, database integration, data mining, and education using the information infrastructure. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a fellow of the ACM, and winner of the Karlstrom Award and Knuth Prize.

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

⭐I’m a senior Computer Science student and will be taking a course on compilers in the upcoming quarter. I was incredibly excited to see this book listed for the course, because it has a legendary status. If you watch some of the Microsoft’s compiler related videos, for example, you can see this book sitting in the background in some of the videos. My school has made some poor choices with books for other courses… needless to say, I was very happy to see this one.I bought this book well ahead of time, because the subject of compilers is not an easy one. Luckily, I just completed a course on Formal Languages & Automata, so some of the things involved in the compilation process is less frightening for me than they would be otherwise. However, I knew I would have to get a good head-start to do well in class, but also to truly learn and understand the subject. This book is very well written and I’ve gotten far enough into it to comfortably comment on it. As far as theory-packed books are concerned, this one is top-notch. The authors made it very approachable and it doesn’t feel like they’re trying to bloat the content with academic nonsense in order to place themselves on a pedestal above all else. No, I can confidently say that they’ve done an amazing job in making it as friendly as possible. With that said, and as I’ve mentioned, this is not an easy topic. Unless you’re exceptionally amazing at comprehending complex material through the first read-through, expect to read this book a few times. On the bright side, it’s a pretty good read and you will learn a lot from it.If you have the right mindset and the necessary passion, this is the book for you. The authors have done a fantastic job and you will not regret investing time into it.

⭐The Dragon Book, as it is affectionately named, is something of a legendary resource among programmers and computer-science students. Not only is it one of the only references on the subject of compilers as a whole, but it’s very well-written and contains a huge amount of information. It considers tricky subjects like lexing and parsing in a serious theoretical way but also includes some precious code examples.Initially when I bought this book because I was nervous about the new edition. The previous 1986 edition with the quaint illustration of the red dragon was the bench-mark gold standard for compiler texts, and I was worried that the new edition (with it’s digitally animated cover, which loses much of the charm of the original) would be marred by loses and compromises. That anxiety was ill-founded. The new edition is every bit as wonderful and complete as the previous version was, with valuable information updated but nothing that I can see that is lost.One small complaint I might have, and this is not something that the authors could control, is that some important new developments have been made in the world of compilers and interpreters in the past few years. Things like PEG (Packrat parsing and OMeta), parser combinators and compound grammars are all new in the front-end world, While the state of the art in interpreters and VMs is leading to things like JIT which are turning out to be of central importance in many places but which are barely mentioned in this book at all.Anyway, on balance this is an excellent book and one that is well worth buying if you’re interested in compilers, interpreters, VMs or other infrastructure components like that. This is a must-read if you’re interested in working on a major existing compiler project or if you would like to dabble with your own little language or language runtime.

⭐The book itself is great. I am finding it to be very helpful in my understanding of the topics covered. I bought it new as the listing said that new copies include any online content or supplemental downloads. However, the links for online content are broken. The email address to ask about online content no longer appeared valid. The “new” copy also had scratches and dings in the cover. The cover also had some sticky residue left over from where some stickers had been removed. The pages themselves appeared pristine and untouched. I’d give the book itself 5 stars but I reduced it to 3 because I didn’t really get what I paid for. I paid for new but basically got a used book

⭐This book is not intended for sale in the United States. On the facing page to the TOC is this notice: “This edition is authorized for sale only in India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives. Circulation of this edition outside of these territories is UNAUTHORIZED”. There are also stickers on the front cover, top left and the back cover, bottom center, that might be hiding similar warnings. Both of these stickers just have “NEW” printed on them.Also from the back cover: “This international edition preserves the cutting-edge approach and pedagogy of the original, but may also feature alterations, customization and adaptation from the United States version.”Follow-up … I filed an inquiry with Amazon and heard from the seller and the sale is entirely legal following a Supreme Court decision back in the ’90s. So much for the above. There are some physical defects, however, as some pages are not cut at the top and the text skews downward. Still readable.

⭐Hello there, so far I can say that; If ye decided to deep dive into the world of high abstraction then is the best book that ye can imagine.I found it easy to read and understand. I feel that this book was written by highly professional community that also understands of how to deliver content to its reader, I mean all is taken into the count in terms of how to make complicated content highly efficient in terms of explanation to the end-user.I came across many books but this one is a special one that might excel your vision of how the software is interacting with hardware.Must have book if you are a software engineer!Cheers!

⭐This edition misses the Preface, the final chapter (Chapter 12), and a different index from the original 2nd edition (missing many critical concepts).

⭐Very nice description about parsing etc.

⭐This has to be THE book on compiler techniques, this edition a reprint of the second edition with a new index. Complete in every way it is slightly (!) above my level but I’m committed to persevering and getting the most out of this text.

⭐I am an engineer with a Non Computer Science/electrical/Electronic engineering degree who has been in software for 25 years. So I just got this book for reference and to slowly start reading..how much I will read I can’t say(I don’t code for a living anymore obviously but purely out of self interest and for building small programs for Stock Market related ML algorithms etc for personal use)..but I wanted to comment about the ‘print quality’. Obviously the Indian edition prints are on low grade paper etc…that’s WHY the price of the books is much less. BUT it has 100% of the same knowledge :)…. so pls don’t go by some of the over critical comments regarding the quality of print.

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