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gaius on April 27, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Books Programmers Don't Really Read

The Dragon Book is supposed to be read by people taking a CS course on compilers, to fill in the gaps. I too don't believe it's a standalone work.

silentbicycle on April 27, 2010 [–]

I found Appel's _Modern Compiler Implementation in ML_ to be better-suited to self study, and more modern. I've used OCaml but not SML, and didn't have any problem following it.

contextfree on April 28, 2010 | [–]

This is a wonderful book!

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