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Programming Language Fundamentals by Example
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Programming Language Fundamentals by Example

by D.E. Stevenson
November 2006
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
5h 46m
English
Auerbach Publications
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PART I

MILESTONES

In keeping with the problem-based approach of the text, the text of the milestones is presented first. Chapter 2 presents the specifications of the project. Milestone I asks you to learn a completely new (for most readers) language called Forth. Forth has an interesting history and is currently used to support Adobe’s Portable Document Format® (pdf) processing. Forth is the target language for the compiler you will develop. The material in Part II is provided to explain how to develop such a compiler.

Milestones II and III are the first two components for the compiler. The purpose of these two is to read the users’ programs, with two results: (1) making a determination as to whether the program is syntactically correct and ...

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