Implementing Programming Languages

Author : Aarne Ranta
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781848900646
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Implementing Programming Languages written by Aarne Ranta and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Implementing a programming language means bridging the gap from the programmer's high-level thinking to the machine's zeros and ones. If this is done in an efficient and reliable way, programmers can concentrate on the actual problems they have to solve, rather than on the details of machines. But understanding the whole chain from languages to machines is still an essential part of the training of any serious programmer. It will result in a more competent programmer, who will moreover be able to develop new languages. A new language is often the best way to solve a problem, and less difficult than it may sound. This book follows a theory-based practical approach, where theoretical models serve as blueprint for actual coding. The reader is guided to build compilers and interpreters in a well-understood and scalable way. The solutions are moreover portable to different implementation languages. Much of the actual code is automatically generated from a grammar of the language, by using the BNF Converter tool. The rest can be written in Haskell or Java, for which the book gives detailed guidance, but with some adaptation also in C, C++, C#, or OCaml, which are supported by the BNF Converter. The main focus of the book is on standard imperative and functional languages: a subset of C++ and a subset of Haskell are the source languages, and Java Virtual Machine is the main target. Simple Intel x86 native code compilation is shown to complete the chain from language to machine. The last chapter leaves the standard paths and explores the space of language design ranging from minimal Turing-complete languages to human-computer interaction in natural language.

Author : Saverio Perugini
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN 13 : 128426498X
Total Pages : 889 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Programming Languages: Concepts and Implementation written by Saverio Perugini and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 889 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Programming Languages: Concepts and Implementation teaches language concepts from two complementary perspectives: implementation and paradigms. It covers the implementation of concepts through the incremental construction of a progressive series of interpreters in Python, and Racket Scheme, for purposes of its combined simplicity and power, and assessing the differences in the resulting languages.

Author : Robert Nystrom
Publisher : Genever Benning
ISBN 13 : 0990582949
Total Pages : 1021 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crafting Interpreters written by Robert Nystrom and published by Genever Benning. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 1021 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite using them every day, most software engineers know little about how programming languages are designed and implemented. For many, their only experience with that corner of computer science was a terrifying "compilers" class that they suffered through in undergrad and tried to blot from their memory as soon as they had scribbled their last NFA to DFA conversion on the final exam. That fearsome reputation belies a field that is rich with useful techniques and not so difficult as some of its practitioners might have you believe. A better understanding of how programming languages are built will make you a stronger software engineer and teach you concepts and data structures you'll use the rest of your coding days. You might even have fun. This book teaches you everything you need to know to implement a full-featured, efficient scripting language. You'll learn both high-level concepts around parsing and semantics and gritty details like bytecode representation and garbage collection. Your brain will light up with new ideas, and your hands will get dirty and calloused. Starting from main(), you will build a language that features rich syntax, dynamic typing, garbage collection, lexical scope, first-class functions, closures, classes, and inheritance. All packed into a few thousand lines of clean, fast code that you thoroughly understand because you wrote each one yourself.

Author : Terence Parr
Publisher : Pragmatic Bookshelf
ISBN 13 : 168050374X
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language Implementation Patterns written by Terence Parr and published by Pragmatic Bookshelf. This book was released on 2009-12-31 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn to build configuration file readers, data readers, model-driven code generators, source-to-source translators, source analyzers, and interpreters. You don't need a background in computer science--ANTLR creator Terence Parr demystifies language implementation by breaking it down into the most common design patterns. Pattern by pattern, you'll learn the key skills you need to implement your own computer languages. Knowing how to create domain-specific languages (DSLs) can give you a huge productivity boost. Instead of writing code in a general-purpose programming language, you can first build a custom language tailored to make you efficient in a particular domain. The key is understanding the common patterns found across language implementations. Language Design Patterns identifies and condenses the most common design patterns, providing sample implementations of each. The pattern implementations use Java, but the patterns themselves are completely general. Some of the implementations use the well-known ANTLR parser generator, so readers will find this book an excellent source of ANTLR examples as well. But this book will benefit anyone interested in implementing languages, regardless of their tool of choice. Other language implementation books focus on compilers, which you rarely need in your daily life. Instead, Language Design Patterns shows you patterns you can use for all kinds of language applications. You'll learn to create configuration file readers, data readers, model-driven code generators, source-to-source translators, source analyzers, and interpreters. Each chapter groups related design patterns and, in each pattern, you'll get hands-on experience by building a complete sample implementation. By the time you finish the book, you'll know how to solve most common language implementation problems.

Author : Simon L. Peyton Jones
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Implementation of Functional Programming Languages written by Simon L. Peyton Jones and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1987 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bruce J. MacLennan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195113068
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Principles of Programming Languages written by Bruce J. MacLennan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In-depth case studies of representative languages from five generations of programming language design (Fortran, Algol-60, Pascal, Ada, LISP, Smalltalk, and Prolog) are used to illustrate larger themes."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Franklyn Turbak
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262303159
Total Pages : 1347 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Design Concepts in Programming Languages written by Franklyn Turbak and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2008-07-18 with total page 1347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Key ideas in programming language design and implementation explained using a simple and concise framework; a comprehensive introduction suitable for use as a textbook or a reference for researchers. Hundreds of programming languages are in use today—scripting languages for Internet commerce, user interface programming tools, spreadsheet macros, page format specification languages, and many others. Designing a programming language is a metaprogramming activity that bears certain similarities to programming in a regular language, with clarity and simplicity even more important than in ordinary programming. This comprehensive text uses a simple and concise framework to teach key ideas in programming language design and implementation. The book's unique approach is based on a family of syntactically simple pedagogical languages that allow students to explore programming language concepts systematically. It takes as premise and starting point the idea that when language behaviors become incredibly complex, the description of the behaviors must be incredibly simple. The book presents a set of tools (a mathematical metalanguage, abstract syntax, operational and denotational semantics) and uses it to explore a comprehensive set of programming language design dimensions, including dynamic semantics (naming, state, control, data), static semantics (types, type reconstruction, polymporphism, effects), and pragmatics (compilation, garbage collection). The many examples and exercises offer students opportunities to apply the foundational ideas explained in the text. Specialized topics and code that implements many of the algorithms and compilation methods in the book can be found on the book's Web site, along with such additional material as a section on concurrency and proofs of the theorems in the text. The book is suitable as a text for an introductory graduate or advanced undergraduate programming languages course; it can also serve as a reference for researchers and practitioners.

Author : J. H. Williams
Publisher : Lecture Notes in Computer Science
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Design and Implementation of Programming Languages written by J. H. Williams and published by Lecture Notes in Computer Science. This book was released on 1977-08 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Peter Sestoft
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319607898
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Programming Language Concepts written by Peter Sestoft and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses a functional programming language (F#) as a metalanguage to present all concepts and examples, and thus has an operational flavour, enabling practical experiments and exercises. It includes basic concepts such as abstract syntax, interpretation, stack machines, compilation, type checking, garbage collection, and real machine code. Also included are more advanced topics on polymorphic types, type inference using unification, co- and contravariant types, continuations, and backwards code generation with on-the-fly peephole optimization. This second edition includes two new chapters. One describes compilation and type checking of a full functional language, tying together the previous chapters. The other describes how to compile a C subset to real (x86) hardware, as a smooth extension of the previously presented compilers.The examples present several interpreters and compilers for toy languages, including compilers for a small but usable subset of C, abstract machines, a garbage collector, and ML-style polymorphic type inference. Each chapter has exercises. Programming Language Concepts covers practical construction of lexers and parsers, but not regular expressions, automata and grammars, which are well covered already. It discusses the design and technology of Java and C# to strengthen students’ understanding of these widely used languages.

Author : Andrea Asperti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521621120
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Optimal Implementation of Functional Programming Languages written by Andrea Asperti and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-12-03 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First account of the subject by two of its leading exponents. Essentially self-contained.