> Compilers as a subject is not helped by the most widely recommended book being the Dragon Book Is it? Even I, an outsider [to the modern university courses],

> Compilers as a subject is not helped by the most widely recommended book being the Dragon Book Is it? Even I, an outsider [to the modern university courses], see that the baseline quite shifted to the TigerBook (aka Appel - Modern Compiler Implementation in [your choice]).