Programming Language Translation

A Practical Approach

P.D. Terry (home page)

Department of Computer Science
Rhodes University
GRAHAMSTOWN 6140, South Africa

p.terry@ru.ac.za

Published by Addison Wesley, Wokingham, England © 1986

ISBN/ISSN: 0-201-18040-5, 440 pages, 6 x 9 inches, paperbound

Key features of the book:

• This book provides a pragmatic and practically oriented course in programming language translation.
• The book uses standard Pascal throughout
• Students are encouraged to explore areas of language design and implementation through carefully integrated practical work
• Complete case studies serve as a foundation for the many challenging projects and exercises
• Assemblers and compilers are discussed
• Rudiments of the implementation of data abstraction and concurrent programming are discussed

Table of Contents:

1 Introduction 2 Translators and interpreters 3 Simple assemblers 4 Advanced assembler features 5 Languages and grammars 6 Top-down parsing 7 A simple compiler 8 Block structure and storage management 9 Concurrent programming 10 Data abstraction

Sources:

Files containing the source code of the examples in the text may be obtained by contacting the author.

Revised Edition

The author's latest textbook Compilers and Compiler Generators: an introduction with C++ represents a completely revised edition of this material. The latest book adds considerably to the material covered, in particular by showing the use of compiler generators as well as the development of hand-crafted compilers, and by providing source code for all case studies in all three of Pascal, Modula-2 and C++.