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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 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?


Maybe because, while HN is talking about The Dragon Book, the actual reference[0] refers to 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


Thank you for pointing that out. I guess I had tunnel vision because of my personal experience.


The original Dragon Book (sometimes referred to as the "Green Dragon Book") was written by Aho and Ullman.


The dragon book still has some gems but great might be pushing it these days


Good question. Why not?




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