20 of 22 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Don't hesitate to buy this one: you won't be sorry!!, Feb 18 1999
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Compiler Design in C (Hardcover)
This book is a must have. It uses the dragon book (Compilers: principles, techniques and tools by Aho et.al) as a model but goes a great deal further in its use of examples when explaining the theory. Whenever I had a little trouble understanding the dragon book or wished that more examples were used I turned to Holub's book. The book is extremely well organized. If you want the theory its all there and if you want to just look at code its all there too: thousands of lines of it! After explaining everything you actually get to see how lex and yacc are built (from the ground up) and finally a C compiler. BUY IT NOW!!
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
My best compiler book, Nov 2 2006
By Olivier Langlois "www.OlivierLanglois.net" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Compiler Design in C (Paperback)
This book is more accessible than the Dragon book (Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools) but is less complete. This book presents complete source code for parser generators tools and a C compiler. Even if this book is getting a little bit old and it targets a DOS platform, it should not stop you from acquiring this goldmine of very useful information for anyone interested in compilers for a very reasonable price.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent! Very practical and useful, July 22 1999
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Compiler Design in C (Hardcover)
I have had this book for 8 years. It clearly describes compiler theories and examples. It is very useful when I develop very fast parser. (The code generated by lex isn't fast enough.) I am not in the compiler writing business. This book is perfect for me.