[recursivedoubts]

highly, highly recommend this book

when i was given a compilers class to teach i wanted to teach hand-written recursive descent because it is simple, elegant and makes the recursive nature of grammars so readily apparent without hiding concepts behind obscure tools

i was despairing that there were no good books around on recursive descent, but stumbled on crafting interpreters before it was even released as a book and immediately structured my class around it

absolute life saver and my students all love it

cannot say enough good things about it!

[ufo]

This is one thing I find funny about this book. Despite the name, it's a great intro to compilers in general.