While this is not a book about compilers and computer languages in general, it will be helpful to have some basic understanding of the components of software that parse and manipulate computer languages—or at least domain-specific computer languages.
When we write software for processing languages, we usually structure this such that the input gets manipulated in distinct phases from the raw input text to the desired result, a result that is often running code or some desired data structures. When processing an embedded DSL, however, there is not ...
