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Build Your Own Programming Language

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

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800204805

Length 494 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Concepts

Programming Language

Author (1):

Clinton L. Jeffery

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Table of Contents (25) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Programming Language Frontends

2. Chapter 1: Why Build Another Programming Language? FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Programming Language Design

4. Chapter 3: Scanning Source Code

5. Chapter 4: Parsing

6. Chapter 5: Syntax Trees

7. Section 2: Syntax Tree Traversals

8. Chapter 6: Symbol Tables

9. Chapter 7: Checking Base Types

10. Chapter 8: Checking Types on Arrays, Method Calls, and Structure Accesses

11. Chapter 9: Intermediate Code Generation

12. Chapter 10: Syntax Coloring in an IDE

13. Section 3: Code Generation and Runtime Systems

14. Chapter 11: Bytecode Interpreters

15. Chapter 12: Generating Bytecode

16. Chapter 13: Native Code Generation

17. Chapter 14: Implementing Operators and Built-In Functions

18. Chapter 15: Domain Control Structures

19. Chapter 16: Garbage Collection

20. Chapter 17: Final Thoughts

21. Section 4: Appendix

22. Assessments

23. Other Books You May Enjoy

Appendix: Unicon Essentials

Section 1: Programming Language Frontends

In this section, you will create a basic language design and implement the frontend of a compiler for it, including a lexical analyzer and a parser that builds a syntax tree from an input source file.

This section comprises the following chapters:

Chapter 1, Why Build Another Programming Language?
Chapter 2, Programming Language Design
Chapter 3, Scanning Source Code
Chapter 4, Parsing
Chapter 5, Syntax Trees

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Authors (1)

Clinton L. Jeffery

Clinton L. Jeffery

Clinton L. Jeffery is Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. He received his B.S. from the University of Washington, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Arizona, all in computer science. He has conducted research and written many books and papers on programming languages, program monitoring, debugging, graphics, virtual environments, and visualization. With colleagues, he invented the Unicon programming language, hosted on the Unicon website.

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