Build Your Own Programming Language

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1. sargstuffAug 2022
   Older editions have solutions to the exercises in book available on line (via search engine such as google)

   ### Some of the following assume an advanced backround:

   Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs , Abelson & Sussman &

   Engineering a compiler, K.D. Cooper & L. Torczon

   Modern Compiler Design (Worldwide Series in Computer Science),

   Build Your Own Programming Language: A programmer's guide to designing compilers, interpreters, and DSLs for solving modern computing problems, C Jeffery

   ### Alternate suggestions:

   Aho et al. book covers quite a broad variety of topics/discussions. There are resources that cover more current approaches / more indepth for a given topic/specific subject matter than would be possible in Aho et.

   Depending on requirements/needs, on-line resources/courses/topics can provide access to more modern/quicker feedback:

   search compiler on https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/

   software perspectiv, https://program-transformation.org/

   research intensive, look at specific book/documentation on how a language is/was implimented, aka cpython, java, compiling lisp, smalltalk-80, forth

   General resource sites (per looking for something less expensive): https://github.com/aalhour/awesome-compilers / https://bernsteinbear.com/pl-resources/

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2. open-source-uxDec 2022
   This is the first time Unicon has made it to the HN front page. I find it interesting a language with more than 20 years of history is barely mentioned in HN discussions over the years. (Try a HN search to see yourself). Just an observation how some languages struggle with visibility.

   One of the creator's of Unicon is Clint Jeffery who has published a recent book: Build Your Own Programming Language (Dec 2021)

   https://www.packtpub.com/product/build-your-own-programming-...

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3. wrpJun 2022
   The literature on interpreters (vs. compilers) is pretty thin. I enjoyed reading these:

   1. Peter John Brown. 1979. Writing Interactive Compilers and Interpreters.

   2. Timothy Budd. 1987. A Little Smalltalk.

   3. Ralph E. Griswold. 2000. The Icon Programming Language, 3e.

   4. Pat Shaughnessy. 2013. Ruby Under a Microscope: An Illustrated Guide to Ruby Internals.

   This is a new one I haven't read yet, but it looks very practical:

   5. Clinton L. Jeffery. 2021. Build Your Own Programming Language: A Programmer's Guide to Designing Compilers, Interpreters, and DSLs for Solving Modern Computing Problems.

   I don't know anything about this one, but people have told me they prefer the first edition:

   6. Ronald Mak. 1991. Writing Compilers and Interpreters: An Applied Approach.

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4. jlg23Oct 2015
   > If you're looking to learn C, or you've ever wondered how to build your own programming language, this is the book for you. In just a few lines of code, I'll teach you how to use C, and together, we'll start building your very own language.

   Agreed on "a few lines", but why should I buy a whole book on this? I'd really appreciate if the OP tried not to hijack hacker feeds for promotion. At least in my book, (s)he is blacklisted for eternity.

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