Dragon Book

Meaning

Proper Noun

  • Any one of several textbooks about compiler construction written by Alfred Aho and Jeffrey Ullman, especially Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (1986).

Origin

  • The textbooks were published with a dragon on their cover art.

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