Looking for papers/book on the art of language design

kszabo@bcml120x.ca.nortel.com (Kevin Szabo)
11 Mar 2006 23:36:11 -0500

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From: kszabo@bcml120x.ca.nortel.com (Kevin Szabo)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 11 Mar 2006 23:36:11 -0500
Organization: Nortel, Carling Campus
Keywords: design, question
Posted-Date: 11 Mar 2006 23:36:11 EST

Does anyone have a reference to a tutorial or explanation of how a
modern language is designed; I'm specifically thinking of application
specific languages but pointers to discussions about designing general
purpose languages are welcome.


I have seen a lot of discussion about the compilers for languages, and
a number of small iterative improvements on languages (or
non-improvements as the ALGOL68 detractors would state), but I haven't
seen a nice essay on how a major delta to a language would be created.


Thanks,
Kevin


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