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From: Pabbisetty.henr@xerox.com (Nagesh Pabbisetty)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: yacc and lex books
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Date: 3 Mar 89 14:13:06 GMT
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I requested this info from the net long time ago. Here is the summary of
responses I received:

AWK:
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1. Unix Programming Environment 
	by Kernighan and Ritchie
	Pretice Hall. Inc., ISBN 0-13-937681-X
   	(See Chapter 4)
2. The Awk Programming Language 
	by Alfred V. Aho, Brian W. Kernighan, and Peter J. Weinberger
	Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-07981-X


LEX & YACC:
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1. Unix Programming Environment 
	by Kernighan and Ritchie
	Pretice Hall. Inc., ISBN 0-13-937681-X
  	 (See Chapter 8)
2. "Introduction to Compiler Construction with UNIX",
	by Axel T. Schreiner and H. George Friedman, Jr.
	Prectice-Hall, Inc. ISBN 0-13-474396-2
3. Yacc: Yet Another Compiler Compiler
	by Steven C. Johnson
	UNIX Programmer's Manual
	HRW.
4. PCYACC 2.0
	Abraxas Software, Inc.
	7033 SW Macadam Ave., Portland, OR 97219
5. BISON---The YACC-compatible Parser Generator
	Charles Donnelly and Richard M. Stallman
	FSF
	675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, Tel: (617) 876-3296
6. See Apollo documentation for tutorials.
7. Try Sun manuals
8. "A Walk Through AWK" published a couple of years ago in the SIGPLAN
Notices is
the single best introduction I had seen to awk.  He treated it like an
ordinary
language first and THEN introduced the wierd features, WITH AN EXPLANATION!
9. Eric Allman recently wrote a couple of articles in "UNIX
Review"(sometime in mid- to late-1988) magazine that delved into yacc.


Nagesh
716-427-1827 / 5458