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From: erkyrath@netcom.com (Andrew Plotkin)
Subject: Re: Questionable Languages & Compilers
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Graham Nelson (graham@gnelson.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> In article <59fo51$lcv@life.ai.mit.edu>, David Baggett
> <URL:mailto:dmb@lf.ai.mit.edu> wrote:
> > 
> > In article <59evu4$42s@sjx-ixn4.ix.netcom.com>,
> > William Bryant <wbryant@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> > 
> > >The "Dragon Book" wouldn't be "programming compilers in C" or some
> > >such title, latest edition about 1992?
> > 
> > Here's a Library of Congress listing for it:
> > 
> >   Aho, Alfred V.  Compilers, principles, techniques, and tools /
> >   Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., c1986.  x, 796 p. : ill. ;
> >   24 cm.  LC CALL NUMBER: QA76.76.C65 A37 1986

> Aho, Sethi and Ullmann, to give all three authors.
> The above is the second edition.

Sheerly for the sake of history, I'll note that I also have the old
_Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation_ by Hopcroft
and Ullman (1979). The one with a picture of a girl labelled "Mathematical
Truth" struggling with a bizarre contraption labelled "NP-Complete
Problems". (And the back cover is the same girl in the contraption's
collapsed ruins.)

Please don't ask me what I'm doing with a textbook which was published a 
year *before* I started hacking -- on that brand-new Apple II+ -- in BASIC.

--Z

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