You're reading from Build Your Own Programming Language A programmer's guide to designing compilers, interpreters, and DSLs for modern computing problems

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804618028

Length 556 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Java EE

Concepts

Programming Language

Author (1):

Clinton L. Jeffery

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Table of Contents (27) Chapters

Preface

1. Section I: Programming Language Frontends

2. Why Build Another Programming Language? FREE CHAPTER

3. Programming Language Design

4. Scanning Source Code

5. Parsing

6. Syntax Trees

7. Section II: Syntax Tree Traversals

8. Symbol Tables

9. Checking Base Types

10. Checking Types on Arrays, Method Calls, and Structure Accesses

11. Intermediate Code Generation

12. Syntax Coloring in an IDE

13. Section III: Code Generation and Runtime Systems

14. Preprocessors and Transpilers

15. Bytecode Interpreters

16. Generating Bytecode

17. Native Code Generation

18. Implementing Operators and Built-In Functions

19. Domain Control Structures

20. Garbage Collection

21. Final Thoughts

22. Section IV: Appendix

23. Answers

24. Other Books You May Enjoy

25. Index

Appendix: Unicon Essentials

Deciding where to go from here

You may want to study more advanced work in any number of areas. These include programming language design, bytecode implementation, code optimization, monitoring and debugging program executions, programming environments such as IDEs, and GUI builders. In this section, we will explore just a few of these possibilities in more detail. This section reflects many of my personal biases and priorities.

Studying programming language design

It is probably more difficult to identify strong works in programming language design than most of the other technical topics mentioned in this section. Harold Abelson and Gerald Sussman wrote a book called Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, which is widely reputed to be useful. It is not a programming language design book, but its insights occasionally delve into that subject.

Browsing casually, you may find many general programming language books. Rafael Finkel’s Advanced Programming...