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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 modern computing problems

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Published in Jan 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804618028
Length 556 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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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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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

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  2. How are the internal nodes of a syntax tree created?
  3. Where are leaves and internal nodes stored while a tree is being constructed?
  4. Why are values wrapped and unwrapped when they are pushed and popped on the value stack?

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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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