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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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7

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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