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> Dragon Book spends far too much time on parsing

I've thought this before, but I think it's a shame that parsing is lumped in with compiler courses. Parsing is such a huge subject, and I'd say that the Dragon Book only lightly touches on parsing (because it's a compiler book afterall).

CS course designers of the future - separate compiler courses into two separate subjects 1. Compilers, and 2. Parsing!




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