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- From: monty%roscom@think.com (Monty Solomon)
- Newsgroups: misc.books.technical
- Subject: Re: WANTED: Decent LEX book
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.122436.5148@proponent.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 12:24:36 GMT
- References: <1992Nov13.131131.6643@mlb.semi.harris.com>
- Sender: monty@proponent.com (Monty Solomon)
- Reply-To: Monty Solomon <roscom!monty@think.com>
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- In article <1992Nov13.131131.6643@mlb.semi.harris.com>
- ccarpent@dw3f.ess.harris.com (Craig Carpenter) writes:
- > --Anyone got a good LEX box, from beginning to advanced..........
-
- From: Brian Erwin <brian@ora.com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 07:39:24 PST
- Subject: NEW LEX & YACC PUBLISHED
-
-
- O'REILLY PUBLISHES COMPLETELY REVISED GUIDE TO LEX AND YACC
-
- SEBASTOPOL, CA -- O'Reilly & Associates announces the release of a
- completely revised guide to two important UNIX programming tools,
- lex and yacc. For the second edition of LEX & YACC, authors Tony
- Mason and Doug Brown are joined by John Levine, moderator of the
- comp.compilers newsgroup on the Internet. Nearly twice the size
- of the original, the second edition contains new and revised tutorial
- and reference sections. The new materials should provide more help
- for new users in learning lex and yacc as well as for seasoned
- programmers who need to understand some of the complexities of these
- programming tools.
-
-
- "I've finished reading the second edition of lex & yacc...
- [T]he book is much stronger than the first edition, well-
- written and thorough. I had the pleasant surprise numerous
- times of reading some passage, thinking to myself, 'Oh, they've
- missed this perhaps subtle point, make a note,' and then the
- next sentence or paragraph would cover exactly that point...
- I'm glad I'll finally have a good book to recommend to folks."
- --Vern Paxson
- Developer of flex
-
-
- When LEX & YACC was first published in May 1990, CommUNIXations
- magazine noted that it covered topics, "usually left out of introductory
- and intermediate UNIX or C courses but [which] can enhance the
- productivity of any programmer who needs to talk to CRT screens or write
- applications programs that are user friendly." In the new edition, the
- authors have provided new, extended examples that show the variety of
- applications for lex and yacc.
-
- Major changes include:
-
- * Lex and yacc each have a chapter devoted to understanding
- basic usage and simple, stand-alone applications;
-
- * A new chapter with full SQL grammar;
-
- * Greatly expanded reference chapters;
-
- * Coverage of the new POSIX 1003.2 standard versions of lex
- and yacc;
-
- * Full coverage of all major MS-DOS and UNIX versions of lex
- and yacc, including AT&T lex and yacc, Berkeley yacc,
- Berkeley/Gnu flex, Gnu bison, MKS Lex and Yacc, and Abraxas
- PCYACC.
-
- LEX & YACC, 2nd edition, continues to be the only book exclusively
- devoted to these two important UNIX programming tools. Every chapter from
- the first edition has been wholly revised, with new, expanded examples
- replacing old ones.
-
- LEX & YACC
- by John R. Levine, Tony Mason, and Doug Brown
- 400 pages
- ISBN 1-56592-00-7
- Price: $29.95
-
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