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LINGUISTICS FOR PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
Reference Materials
Terrence W. Pratt and Marvin V. Zelkowitz. Programming Languages: Design and Implementation. 4th Ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. 1995. Chapters 1 and 3.
Kenneth C. Louden. Programming Languages: Principles and Practice. 2d Ed. Belmont, CA: Thompson, Brooks/Cole. 2003. Chapter 1.
Web Sites
Wikipedia: search “metalanguage,” “surface structure,” “deep structure,” “transformational grammar.”
6.1 METALANGUAGE VERSUS OBJECT LANGUAGE
Speaking about languages adds a strange twist to the conversation. How do you distinguish between the language you are talking about and the language you are using to describe features? For example, when you learned a programming ...
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