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Good for them. The Dragon Book is a great compiler guide, despite some understandable criticisms I've heard about it not teaching blessing edge technique at the
by jjice 6y ago
Good for them. The Dragon Book is a great compiler guide, despite some understandable criticisms I've heard about it not teaching blessing edge technique at the time. I'm using it right now for my compiler course, and it still holds up to a solid extent. Just out of curiosity though, why wasn't Sethi (co-author) included? Was he just an author and not involved in as much research as Aho and Ullman?
- pbhowmic 6y agoGood question. Why not?
- comeonseriously 6y agoMaybe because, while HN is talking about The Dragon Book, the actual reference[0] refers to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principles_of_Compiler_Design https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principles_of_Compiler_Design which did not include Sethi (although there is a blurb about it in the paragraph). [0]https://awards.acm.org/about/2020-turing https://awards.acm.org/about/2020-turing
- jjice 6y agoThank you for pointing that out. I guess I had tunnel vision because of my personal experience.
- gnulinux 6y agoThe original Dragon Book (sometimes referred to as the "Green Dragon Book") was written by Aho and Ullman.
- mhh__ 6y agoThe dragon book still has some gems but great might be pushing it these days