Talk:Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools

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Second Edition (2006)

Since the Second Edition has been released, this article now refers to a non-current edition of the book. I agree with an earlier comment on this talk page that the Dragon-Book-related articles should be merged and unified in some way. Alternatively, maybe the content of this article should be moved to Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (First Edition), and the content of this article should be reworked to reflect the now-current Second Edition. --Strangetonic 23:18, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

Errata

There are enough people complaining about lack of an Errata page despite errors found in this book. This entry is a request that we start such a page on our own.

International Edition Cover

Does anyone know why the international edition dropped the dragon from the cover? Was it because, as suggested above, "it gay"? It'll create confusion to refer to "the purple dragon book", when it doesn't actually have a dragon on the cover. I also recall the book was supposed to contain source code related to the rendered image - or was that just additional downloadable material? barryd (talk) 08:15, 15 March 2009 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 17:41, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Color mixup

The first edition is informally called the “red dragon book” to distinguish it from the second edition and from Aho & Ullman’s Principles of Compiler Design (1977, sometimes known as the “green dragon book” because the dragon on its cover is green).

I believe it's the other way around.--76.69.255.151 (talk) 23:51, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

I agree: I've got a 2nd Ed. on the shelf behind me and the dragon is definitely red, and I've seen a 1st Ed. with its green dragon. I have not changed this since I don't know what's in the cited reference. MarkMLl (talk) 08:20, 23 September 2012 (UTC)

Edition status

Everybody agrees that Aho and Ullman is the First Edition. Aho, Sethi and Ullman describes itself as "a descendant of" the older book so is clearly not simply a reprint: it should be called the second edition. I think the publisher is out of order for describing Aho, Lam, Sethi and Ullman as the second edition since it clearly has significant changes from the older work. MarkMLl (talk) 08:20, 23 September 2012 (UTC)

"21st Century Compilers" redirect

Was this book originally titled 21st Century Compilers, (eg: in ACM http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=975157 with a different ISBN 0321131436) or is this a different work?

Curiously, searches for ISBN 0321131436 lead to the current article edition as well.

I ask because there's a redirect to this page, but no mention or explanation of the redirect's title or why it redirects here. I can't point to a rule about this, but I feel like redirects should be obvious or self-explanatory from the article.

-- 72.214.181.169 (talk) 12:25, 16 January 2017 (UTC)