LOOKING FORWARD
This chapter should have given you an overall idea about a language translator and specifically about a compiler. In the subsequent chapters, we fill in a lot of details.
After going through a step-by-step discussion of a complete compiler and run-time system for a very simple language in Chapter 2, we shall discuss in individual chapters each of the phases of a compiler. We shall also discuss some of the concepts that we have not yet mentioned in this chapter –syntax-directed translation, attribute grammars, type system, run-time environment, code generation and machine-dependent optimization, etc.
We shall also introduce gradually compiler writing tools such as lex, flex, yacc, bison, etc. and use them wherever necessary. We ...
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