cinderella book

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cinderella book - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Cinderella Book
  
     <publication> "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.
  
     See also book titles.
  
     [Jargon File]
  
     (1996-12-03)
  

cinderella book - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  Cinderella Book
   n.
  
     [CMU] 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. See also book titles.