Title: Bad code, low on detail
Product review: Though I admittely have the previous print of this book, I am fairly convinced that my judgements of that book hold true for this edition. The C++ code presented here is some of the worst I have ever seen. The earlier chapters actually try to be a crashcourse C++. I got the distinct feeling in later chapters that the author's full knowledge of this wonderful language are unfortunately contained therein.The detail level of this book is saddeningly low. Being 112 pages (194 in my edition) this is hardly a surprise anymore.Long story short, if you want to see someone write bad but well documented code for a simple compiler, by all means buy this. If you want to know how things actually work, more books will be a necessity. My suggestion for theory: Dragon Book (Aho et al.) and add Holub's "Compiler Design in C" for a practical hands-on, but in-depth approach.
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