Table of Contents
Preface
Section 1: Programming Language Frontends
Chapter 1: Why Build Another Programming Language?
So, you want to write your own programming language…
Types of programming language implementations
Organizing a bytecode language implementation
Languages used in the examples
Language versus library – what's the difference?
Applicability to other software engineering tasks
Establishing the requirements for your language
Case study – requirements that inspired the Unicon language
Unicon requirement #1 – preserve what people love about Icon
Unicon requirement #2 – support large-scale programs working on big data
Unicon requirement #3 – high-level input/output for modern applications
Unicon requirement #4 – provide universally ...
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