There is the ORA book lex & yacc, 2nd ed, which while I've not read through, looks like it has a good bit of intro into the parsing processing. While it was last published in 1992, lex and yacc (and the associated Gnu tools) haven't changed much since then either, so the book's quite valid.

But as the other poster put it, the only place outside of the docs on the net are books regarding compiler programming, and these are typically limited to textbooks at the college level. And since compile programming is typically a optional CS course, the number of books here are few and far between.

The other problem is that while using lex/yacc and other tools isn't in themselves a difficult task, developing a usable grammer, and implementing that grammar with those tools *is* one. And no one has really written anything 'good' in terms of a thought process, critical review, or similar, of grammar design as much as there is of OOP, programming style, etc. I would not be surprised to find a better trove of info in older USENET archives (pre1995) than what is on the net today for grammars.

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In reply to Re: Learning about Lexing/Parsing in general form? by Masem
in thread Learning about Lexing/Parsing in general form? by r.joseph

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