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

Exploring references for further reading

Here is a detailed bibliography of the works discussed in the previous sections. Within each subsection, the works are listed alphabetically by author.

Studying programming language design

In the area of programming language design, you may find the following items to be of interest:

Harold Abelson and Gerald Sussman, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Second edition, MIT Press, 1996.
Rafael Finkel, Advanced Programming Language Design, Pearson 1995.
Ralph Griswold, History of the Icon Programming Language, Proceedings of HOPL-II, ACM SIGPLAN Notices 28:3 March 1993, pages 53–68.
Daniel H.H. Ingalls, Design Principles Behind Smalltalk, Byte Magazine August 1981, pages 286–298.
John Ousterhout, Scripting: Higher-Level Programming for the 21st Century, IEEE Computer 31:3, March 1998, pages 23–30.
John Ousterhout, Why Threads Are a Bad Idea (for most purposes...