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Title: Building Parsers With Java by Steven John Metsker ISBN: 0-201-71962-2 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 26 March, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.17 (12 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: So-so text/good java libraries
Comment: This book sort of misses the mark, but still holds good/great value. The book is about how to build parsers using the author's framework (included in the CD, and licensed to use for any purpose), rather than how to build your own framework (what I expected from the title).
I think the book would have been much better (in didactic terms) if it would have started from ground zero and built the parser library rather than just focus on example cases. There is a lot of insight there that a reader will only get by careful reading of the parsing framework's code (knowledge which would have been better disseminated through the book). I would have rated it 5 stars if it weren't for my disappointment that the book was NOT on the parser but on its API. Also useful would have been a section on performance. The fully OO parser is sure not to be as speedy but that remains to be measured.
Downfalls? The text is not very exciting but then again we are talking about parsing, the examples could have been a little more interesting to spice it up a bit. The architecture of the parser is fairly good. There are some implementation issues that can easily be solved using the extensible nature of the framework and a good refactoring browser like IntelliJ's Idea.
Code style is excellent, save for few "abbreviated method names".
Rating: 5
Summary: Includes more than three hundred Java classes
Comment: In Building Parsers With JAVA, computer language expert Steven Metsker shows how to create parsers that recognize custom programming languages. Readers will learn how to design, code and test a working parser; how to create a parser to read data language; how to crate a new computer language; how to translate the design of language into code; how to accept an arithmetic formula and compute its result; how to build parsers for a custom query language going beyond SQL; and much, much more. The "user friendly" text is enhanced with an accompany CD-ROM containing all of the examples and the parser toolkit, including more than three hundred Java classes and their corresponding javadoc documentation. Also provided are example programs for the new logic, query, and imperative languages introduced in the text. Building Parsers With JAVA is an indispensable and highly recommended book/CD addition to the language programmer reference shelf.
Rating: 3
Summary: Beware the Parser Framework!
Comment: I agree with the other 3-star reviews of this book. It's full of fascinating ideas about a very advanced topic, but the fact that everything is so dependent on the included framework makes it difficult to learn from. I think the best programming books teach you how to build step-by-step from the ground up. Instead, this book expects you to immerse yourself in the code first, and then figure things out from there.
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Title: Programming Language Processors in Java: Compilers and Interpreters by David Watt, Deryck Brown ISBN: 0130257869 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 15 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $72.00 |
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Title: Modern Compiler Implementation in Java by Andrew W. Appel, Jens Palsberg ISBN: 052182060X Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $65.00 |
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Title: Eclipse in Action: A Guide for the Java Developer by David Gallardo, Ed Burnette, Robert McGovern ISBN: 1930110960 Publisher: Manning Publications Company Pub. Date: 15 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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Title: Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler ISBN: 0321127420 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 05 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Programming Language Pragmatics by Michael Scott ISBN: 1558604421 Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Pub. Date: 15 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $74.95 |
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