Build Your Own Programming Language A programmer s guide to designing compilers interpreters and DSLs for solving modern computing problems 1st Edition Clinton L. Jeffery 9781800204805, 1800204809

Build Your Own Programming Language A programmer s guide to designing compilers interpreters and DSLs for solving modern computing problems 1st Edition Clinton L. Jeffery – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9781800204885,1800205509

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1800204809
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1800204805
• Author:  Clinton L Jeffery

The need for different types of computer languages is growing rapidly and developers prefer creating domain-specific languages for solving specific application domain problems. Building your own programming language has its advantages. It can be your antidote to the ever-increasing size and complexity of software.

In this book, you’ll start with implementing the frontend of a compiler for your language, including a lexical analyzer and parser. The book covers a series of traversals of syntax trees, culminating with code generation for a bytecode virtual machine. Moving ahead, you’ll learn how domain-specific language features are often best represented by operators and functions that are built into the language, rather than library functions. We’ll conclude with how to implement garbage collection, including reference counting and mark-and-sweep garbage collection. Throughout the book, Dr. Jeffery weaves in his experience of building the Unicon programming language to give better context to the concepts where relevant examples are provided in both Unicon and Java so that you can follow the code of your choice of either a very high-level language with advanced features, or a mainstream language.

By the end of this book, you’ll be able to build and deploy your own domain-specific languages, capable of compiling and running programs.

Table of contents:

1. Why Build Another Programming Language
2. Programming Language Design
3. Scanning Source Code
4. Parsing
5. Syntax Trees
6. Symbol Tables
7. Checking Base Types
8. Checking Types on Arrays, Method Calls, and Structure Accesses
9. Intermediate Code Generation
10. Syntax Cloning in an IDE
11. Bytecode Interpreters
12. Generating Bytecode
13. Native Code Generation
14. Implementing Operators and Built-In Functions
15. Domain Control Structures
16. Garbage Collection
17. Final Thoughts
18. Appendix A – Unicon Essentials

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