You're reading from Build Your Own Programming Language A programmer's guide to designing compilers, interpreters, and DSLs for modern computing problems

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804618028

Length 556 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Java EE

Concepts

Programming Language

Author (1):

Clinton L. Jeffery

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Table of Contents (27) Chapters

Preface

1. Section I: Programming Language Frontends

2. Why Build Another Programming Language? FREE CHAPTER

3. Programming Language Design

4. Scanning Source Code

5. Parsing

6. Syntax Trees

7. Section II: Syntax Tree Traversals

8. Symbol Tables

9. Checking Base Types

10. Checking Types on Arrays, Method Calls, and Structure Accesses

11. Intermediate Code Generation

12. Syntax Coloring in an IDE

13. Section III: Code Generation and Runtime Systems

14. Preprocessors and Transpilers

15. Bytecode Interpreters

16. Generating Bytecode

17. Native Code Generation

18. Implementing Operators and Built-In Functions

19. Domain Control Structures

20. Garbage Collection

21. Final Thoughts

22. Section IV: Appendix

23. Answers

24. Other Books You May Enjoy

25. Index

Appendix: Unicon Essentials

Technical requirements

This chapter will take you through some real technical content. You can download this book's examples from our GitHub repository: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Build-Your-Own-Programming-Language/tree/master/ch3. The Code in Action video for the chapter can be found here: https://bit.ly/3Fnn2c2To follow along, you will need to install some tools and download the examples. Let's start by looking at how to install UFlex and JFlex. UFlex comes with Unicon and requires no separate installation. For JFlex, download jflex-1.8.2.tar.gz (or newer) from http://jflex.de/download.html. Depending on your version of the tar(1) program, you may have to first decompress it with gunzip, converting the file from a .tar.gz file into a .tar file. After that you can then extract the files from the .tar file with tar. It will extract itself into a subdirectory under the directory where you run tar.For example, you will see a subdirectory named jflex-1.8.2. On Windows...