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WHAT IS A GENERAL STRUCTURE FOR COMPILING?
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. Chapters 1 and 3.
7.1 A GENERAL FRAMEWORK
We have been studying language, both natural and formal. Formal languages are languages that have completely specified syntax and semantics. What we believe at this point is that programming languages are not all that different from natural languages in their overall concepts. We should expect that programming languages have the same parts (Figure 7.2 ...
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