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

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

There are two tools for you to install for this chapter, as follows:

Dot is part of a package called Graphviz that can be downloaded from http://graphviz.org. After successfully installing Graphviz, you should have an executable named dot (or dot.exe) on your path. We will use dot to check our work after we finish building the syntax tree. Dot will generate a graphic image of the tree for us, but first, we will have to build the tree. For this reason, we will cover the dot tool and our use of it at the end of the chapter.
GNU’s Not Unix (GNU) Make is a tool to help manage large programming projects that supports both Unicon and Java. It is available for Windows from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/make.htm. Most programmers probably get it along with their C/C++ compiler or with a development suite such as MSYS2 or Cygwin. On Linux, you typically get Make from a C development suite, although it is often also a separate package...