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Title: Carelessly written
Review: Andrew Appel is a CS professor at Princeton and, reportedly, a very smart guy. He certainly has a lot to say about compilers, but in this book he simply didn't care to. It's written in a very perfunctory way and is skippy and muddled, nearly incomprehensible. Perhaps this book is OK for someone taking a course with Professor Appel, where whatever is unclear from the book can be elucidated in class, but as a stand-alone book it's gonna cause you a lot of frustration and ultimately result in defeat. Any other book (Muchnik, Kennedy, even the Dragon book, despite its being old, dry, and somewhat unsystematic) is a better choice, especially for self-study.
