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Low-Level Programming: C, Assembly, and Program Execution on Intel® 64 Architecture
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Low-Level Programming: C, Assembly, and Program Execution on Intel® 64 Architecture

by Igor Zhirkov
June 2017
Intermediate to advanced
464 pages
11h 54m
English
Apress
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© Igor Zhirkov 2017

Igor Zhirkov, Low-Level Programming, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2403-8_12

12. Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics

Igor Zhirkov1 

(1)Saint Petersburg, Russia

In this chapter we are going to revise the very essence of what the programming language is. These foundations will allow us to better understand the language structure, the program behavior, and the details of translation that you should be aware of.

12.1 What Is a Programming Language?

A programming language is a formal computer language designed to describe algorithms in a way understandable by a machine. Each program is a sequence of characters. But how do we tell the programs from all other strings? We need to define the language somehow.

The brute way is to say that the compiler ...

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