Build your own programming language

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Popis zboží: Written by the creator of the Unicon programming language, this book will show you how to implement programming languages to reduce the time and cost of creating applications for new or specialized areas of ... Written by the creator of the Unicon programming language, this book will show you how to implement programming languages to reduce the time and cost of creating applications for new or specialized areas of computing. The need for different types of computer languages is growing, as is the need for domain-specific languages. Building your own programming language has its advantages, as it can be your antidote to the ever-increasing 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, including the handling of parse errors. The book then covers a series of traversals of syntax trees, culminating with code generation for a bytecode virtual machine or native code. You’ll also manage data structures and output code when writing a preprocessor or a transpiler. 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. Throughout the book, Dr. Jeffery weaves in his experience from building the Unicon programming language to give better context to the concepts. Relevant examples are provided in Unicorn and Java so that you can follow the code of your choice. In this edition, code examples have been extended and further tested. 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. This book is for software developers interested in the idea of inventing their own language or developing a domain-specific language. Computer science students taking compiler construction courses will also find this book highly useful as a practical guide to language implementation to supplement more theoretical textbooks. We assume most readers will have intermediate or better proficiency in a high level programming language such as Java or C++. (N.B. Additional chapters to be confirmed upon publication) zobrazit více