DYOL:
Design Your Own Language
DYOL:
Design Your Own Language
E. W. Dijkstra, A Primer of ALGOL 60 Programming, Academic Press, 1962.
@book{LD-ED,
title = "{A Primer of ALGOL 60 Programming}",
author = "Edsger Wybe Dijkstra",
publisher = "Academic Press",
series = "APIC Studies in Data Processing",
volume = 2,
isbn = "978-0122162503",
year = 1962,
}
LD-ED was an interesting challenge since its style is different from both compiler books and from modern language documents. Sections have unhelpful Dijkstraesque names: “local quantities” mean the Order of declarations, “formal parameters” is about Scope & Binding, etc. Interestingly, Character Type (strings) are neither mentioned nor used in this book, except in the appendix which contains Backus et al.'s Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language Algol 60.
