Compilers: Principles and Practice by Pearson

Introduction 5

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The programming languages for simulation package like MATLAB or statistical package like R

are VHLL. They are object-oriented languages.

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Haskell is a Functional programming language.

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Perl and Python can also be called VHLL, as they use higher level objects such as lists, array and

dictionaries directly. For example, a simple statement in Perl,

@evens = map {$_ if $_ % 2 == 0} (0...100);

will assign a list consisting of all the even values between 0 and 100 to array @even. The iteration

over an array of integers 0 to 100 is handled automatically as a part of the map function.

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The METAFONT language developed by Prof. Donald ...