From: Bryant Brandon
Subject: Re: Q: text manipulation languages?
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Message-ID: <38AF9B80045BDAE5.27F3E26700C652A5.E44448C6BF004268@library-proxy.airnews.net>

Martin Rodgers wheeded these wise words:

[...]

>See the Dragon book for an 
>introduction to the string matching techniques common to them all.

   You mean _Principles of Compiler Design_ by Aho Ullman?  ISBN 0-201-00022-9?

B.B.       --I am not a goat!

From: Martin Rodgers
Subject: Re: Q: text manipulation languages?
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Message-ID: <MPG.ef1cac670aa5cef9897ef@news.demon.co.uk>

Bryant Brandon wheezed these wise words:

>   You mean _Principles of Compiler Design_ by Aho Ullman?  ISBN 0-201-00022-9?

That's the one! There's a later book, "Compilers, Principles, 
Techniques and Tools", but most of the material is in "Principles of 
Compiler Design". See the comp.compilers FAQ for more details.
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