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Language Implementation Patterns
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Language Implementation Patterns

by Terence Parr
December 2009
Intermediate to advanced
380 pages
9h 2m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Who Should Read This Book

If you’re a practicing software developer or computer science student and you want to learn how to implement computer languages, this book is for you. By computer language, I mean everything from data formats, network protocols, configuration files, specialized math languages, and hardware description languages to general-purpose programming languages.

You don’t need a background in formal language theory, but the code and discussions in this book assume a solid programming background.

To get the most out of this book, you should be fairly comfortable with recursion. Many algorithms and processes are inherently recursive. We’ll use recursion to do everything from recognizing input, walking trees, and building interpreters ...

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