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Title: Incorrect information
Review: First the good news. This is a high quality production. Acid free paper and excellent type font. The section on Finite Automata Regular expressions is pretty good.It all goes horribly wrong in the section on "Top down parsing".The author "explains" that a recursive descent parser may have to back track. He then wastes 20 pages describing a back tracking parser. Lastly he mentions LL(k) grammars but doesn't make the connection to recursive descent parsers.There is no excuse for this shoddiness. This stuff has been around since the late 60's early 70's. It's described in every Textbook since then. Why is this bad information promulgated in a publication written in 2002?
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