> I've pressed for details, and I've seen others do the same, but it never ends in anything concrete—just an implicit appeal to the new conventional wisdom that

> I've pressed for details, and I've seen others do the same, but it never ends in anything concrete—just an implicit appeal to the new conventional wisdom that they do more harm than good. Really? Merits of the criticism aside (I don't know anything about compilers, so I'm not capable of judging), the received wisdom seems to be that the Dragon book spends far too much time on parsing and not enough time on other, more important aspects of modern compiler development. See, for instance, this blog post by a professor about teaching a compilers course: http://danghica.blogspot.com/2020/04/teaching-compilers.html http://danghica.blogspot.com/2020/04/teaching-compilers.html. Or this blog post (and the one it links in the first paragraph): https://semantic-domain.blogspot.com/2020/02/thought-experiment-introductory.html https://semantic-domain.blogspot.com/2020/02/thought-experim....