34.8 Grune and Jacobs 2008

Parsing Techniques: A Practical Guide, by Dick Grune and Ceriel Jacobs, 2nd Edition. (Springer: New York NY, 2008). This is the most authoritative and comprehensive introduction to parsing I know of. In theory it requires no mathematics, only a programming background, but even so it is moderately difficult reading.

This is the second edition of Grune and Jacobs’s survey of parsing methods. See Grune and Jacobs 1990. The bibliography for this book is available in enlarged form on the web: ftp://ftp.cs.vu.nl/pub/dick/PTAPG_2nd_Edition/CompleteList.pdf.