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Summary: Hated it...
Review: After working on C, C++ and a little bit of Assembly languages, you feel excited about the knowledge & underlying mechanisms of assemblers, loaders and linkers etc. I have gone through this book and found it extremely helpful in getting the complex concepts of system softwares. I agree with the idea of author to give the concepts on the basis of a hypothetical machine, rather than going into the complex details of any real system. This provides a big scope of the subject, giving you the ability to feel at ease with any system. What I like most in this book is that, its not so big and with just eight chapters, you feel comfortable about the idea of reading the book. I think, its a must to read book for computer science students.
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Summary: The easy path to System Software
Review: After working on C, C++ and a little bit of Assembly languages, you feel excited about the knowledge & underlying mechanisms of assemblers, loaders and linkers etc. I have gone through this book and found it extremely helpful in getting the complex concepts of system softwares. I agree with the idea of author to give the concepts on the basis of a hypothetical machine, rather than going into the complex details of any real system. This provides a big scope of the subject, giving you the ability to feel at ease with any system. What I like most in this book is that, its not so big and with just eight chapters, you feel comfortable about the idea of reading the book. I think, its a must to read book for computer science students.
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Summary: Pretty Good
Review: I found this book to be a pretty decent guide to understanding basic compilers structures. The reason I give it a four is because it's verbiage was a bit difficult to understand at times. The author begins by using a very novel example of a simple CPU and explains how to write an assembler for it and then a compiler. When you are done reading it you should be able to go off an write a pretty simple assembler, compiler and interpreter. (I did!)
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Summary: Pretty Good
Review: I found this book to be a pretty decent guide to understanding basic compilers structures. The reason I give it a four is because it's verbiage was a bit difficult to understand at times. The author begins by using a very novel example of a simple CPU and explains how to write an assembler for it and then a compiler. When you are done reading it you should be able to go off an write a pretty simple assembler, compiler and interpreter. (I did!)
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Summary: Hated it...
Review: This book is filled about 500 pages of such incredible verbosity that it is wonderous that anyone can come away having learned anything. The material is hopelessly outdated. This book definitely is not worth the nearly $... I wasted on it. I hate myself for the ... dollar I will receive at the college bookstore when I return it.
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Summary: The kind of book I've still wanted for a long time
Review: This is a wonderful book help me clear a lot of idea.
Most of people study these tools,that is compiler,assembler,OS...and so forth, indenpendently.
But L. Beck tell you the relationship between them systematically.It is really worthy of buying the book.
It seems that there is hardly books talk about topic such as the content of the book.
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Summary: feel the lack of something..
Review: To my opinion, the merit of this book is that it gives good basic knowledge about assembler and loader. Especially, the chapter about loader is very clearly written. I think that it's better than Levin's book (Linkers and Loaders).
However, the level of information is too low. If you are under-graduate student and don't have many experience about the assembly programming, this book is helpful to raise your level in system programming. But to experienced engineer, I think it will be a disappointing book.
I'd like to recommend this book as the introductory book or the summary of assembler, link and loader, compiler, os, software engineering, and so forth.
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