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.

