Dragon Book
<publication> The classic text "Compilers: Principles, Techniques and
Tools", by Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey D. Ullman (Addison-Wesley
1986; ISBN 0-201-10088-6). So called because of the cover design featuring a
dragon labelled "complexity of compiler design" and a knight bearing the lance
"LALR parser generator" among his other trappings. This one is more specifically
known as the "Red Dragon Book" (1986); an earlier edition, sans Sethi and titled
"Principles Of Compiler Design" (Alfred V. Aho and Jeffrey D. Ullman;
Addison-Wesley, 1977; ISBN 0-201-00022-9), was the "Green Dragon Book" (1977).
(Also "New Dragon Book", "Old Dragon Book".) The horsed knight and the Green
Dragon were warily eying each other at a distance; now the knight is typing
(wearing gauntlets!) at a terminal showing a video-game representation of the
Red Dragon's head while the rest of the beast extends back in normal space.
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