The acknowledgments mention that the book was entirely typeset at Bell Labs using troff on the Unix operating system, little of which had, at that time, been seen outside the Laboratories. The book was published by Addison-Wesley, ISBN 2-9. The back cover offers the original inspiration of the cover design: The dragon is replaced by windmills, and the knight is Don Quixote.
Lam, and the dragon became purple hence becoming the "purple dragon book." The book also contains the entire code for making a compiler. The second edition of Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools added a fourth author, Monica S. The book's prose is very clear and I like that chapter 1 does a great job of explaining the different parts of a compiler and chapter 2 implements a compiler for a minuscule language. The book may be called the "green dragon book" to distinguish it from its successor, Aho, Sethi & Ullman's Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools, which is the "red dragon book". My recommendation is Crafting a Compiler by Fischer et al. It is often called the " green dragon book" and its cover depicts a knight and a dragon in battle the dragon is green, and labeled "Complexity of Compiler Design", while the knight wields a lance and a shield labeled " LALR parser generator" and "Syntax Directed Translation" respectively, and rides a horse labeled "Data Flow Analysis". The source code of this compiler shows all the beauty of the Pascal programming language and reveals all the tricks needed to build a fast and compact compiler for any language, not just Pascal. This is a Turbo Pascal 7 compatible compiler written in Turbo Pascal. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Compiler Design. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices.
Both of the authors won the 2020 Turing award for their work on compilers. The best book on compiler design is the compiler itself. Compiler Design - Ebook written by Knowledge Flow. Principles of Compiler Design, by Alfred Aho and Jeffrey Ullman, is a classic textbook on compilers for computer programming languages.