Title: Author goes light on formalism to convey heavy ideas.
Product review: In this text, Linz takes on one of the more abstractconcepts of computer science, that being the study offormal languages and automata. Linz does a good job ofmaking this potentially dry topic accessible by introducingthe least amount of formalism necessary to further thesubject at hand. Math purists will bristle at his 'outlines'of proofs, but students who are interested more in gettingthe concepts will appreciate the light style. Linz leavesa lot as 'an exercize for the reader', and the lack ofanswers for even a subset of the given problems is aproblem. This is, however, made up for with extensiveexamples worked in detail.
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