On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 20:08, Melvin Smith wrote: > At 06:30 PM 11/13/2003 +0100, Stéphane Payrard wrote: > >I have bought "Virtual Machine Design and Implementation in C++" > >by Bill Blunden. This book has very positive reviews (see > >slashdot or amazon.com). It seems to impress people by the > >apparent width of covered topics. Most of it is off topic. The > >book gives to the moderately knowledgeable reader no insight > >about virtual machines or even about language compilation. > > Thanks for the review. Yours is the 2nd review I've read about this > book. I was about to buy it but after the 1st review I changed my > mind as it echoed your review in almost every sense.
On a related note: what, if any, books would you recommend to someone who is eager to join parrot-development, but feels he doesn't know enough about compiler design, virtual machines etc. Michel Rijnders PS I'm new to this list: hi all!
