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Building Programming Language Interpreters
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Building Programming Language Interpreters

by Daniel Ruoso
January 2026
Intermediate to advanced
372 pages
8h 14m
English
Packt Publishing
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9

Putting It All Together and Creating a Coherent Vision

Up to this point, I have been focusing on more abstract features in the design of a programming language. In this chapter, I will focus on the design of the syntax of the first version of the programming language itself, which will include the following topics:

  • The general format of the language, based on the decision to follow a declarative programming paradigm
  • How values and containers are going to be defined and used
  • How variables are going to be declared and referenced
  • A concrete use case of the HTTP/1.1 protocol to exercise the overall language design

By the end of this chapter, you will have a more nuanced appreciation of the minutiae involved in the design of a programming language ...

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