Cinderella Book

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"Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation", by John Hopcroft and Jeffrey Ullman, (Addison-Wesley, 1979). So called because the cover depicts a girl (putatively Cinderella) sitting in front of a Rube Goldberg device and holding a rope coming out of it. On the back cover, the device is in shambles after she has (inevitably) pulled on the rope.

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Last updated: 1996-12-03

Nearby terms:

CIL ♦ CIM ♦ CIMS PL/I ♦ Cinderella Book ♦ CINT92 ♦ C-Interp ♦ CIO ♦ ciphertext

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