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Not suitable for those who want to know about implementation details though

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The new edition is every bit as wonderful and complete as the previous version was with valuable information updated but nothing that i can see that is lost

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Things like peg packrat parsing and ometa parser combinators and compound grammars are all new in the frontend world while the state of the art in interpreters and vms is leading to things like jit which are turning out to be of central importance in many places but which are barely mentioned in this book at all

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This is not the book on implementation details

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This stuffs in there but if one is not expecting it one wont appreciate the terse presentation

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So i dont recommend this book as a first book on languages and compilers

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Any serious computer scientist should at least read this book if not own it

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However it is not a guide on how to make a stateoftheart compiler or teach you how a specific implementation came to be