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+1  Q: 

I'm looking for the holy grail of books on parsing.

If you all could only own or buy one book on parsing what would it be? Specifically for parsing a programming language.

+5  A: 

The Dragon Book?

cletus  2009-08-06 17:00:11
+4  A: 

Compilers - Principles, Techniques and Tools, by Alfred V. Aho, Monica S. Lam, Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey D. Ullman, aka "The Dragon Book", is the standard text on this. Required reading!

Paul Dixon  2009-08-06 17:02:28

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