DYOL: Design Your Own Language

Book sources — Programming Languages — Bruce MacLennan

B. J. MacLennan, Principles of Programming Languages: Design, Evaluation and Implementation, Holt-Saunders, 1983.

@book{PL-BM,
	title     = "{Principles of Programming Languages: Design, Evaluation and Implementation}",
	author    = "Bruce J. MacLennan",
	publisher = "Holt-Saunders",
	isbn      = "978-0195113068",
	year      = 1983,
}
		

PL-BM has a fancy cover and holds the same name as the flagship conference in the domain of programming languages, but is not as overly formal as their proceedings. It gives a fairly comprehensive overview of the domain for early 1980s and includes concepts such as OOP and Garbage Collection.

Marked:

• Assignment: page 105
• Backtracking: page 516
• Block: page 106
• Branching: page 42
• Character Type: page 185
• Class: page 464
• Collection: page 70
• Concrete Syntax: page 89
• Constraint: page 279
• Encapsulation: page 12
• Enumeration Type: page 188
• Exception Handling: page 316
• First Class Citizen: page 397
• Garbage Collection: page 443
• Generation: page 5
• Indentation & Whitespace: page 91
• Inheritance: page 465
• Input/Output: page 13
• Iteration: page 47
• Keyword: page 92
• Module: page 267
• Numeric Data Type: page 65
• Operator Precedence: page 94
• Orthogonal Design: page 8
• Parametrised Type: page 279
• Phased Process: page 38
• Pointer: page 206
• Pretty-printing: page 89
• Record: page 199
• Redefine: page 85
• Static Analysis: page 7
• Subprogram: page 35
• Substitution: page 208
• Synchronisation: page 328
• Type Analysis: page 129
• Type Definition: page 268
• Unification: page 507
• Variable: page 22

The DYOL toolkit was created and is maintained by Dr. Vadim Zaytsev a.k.a. @grammarware. Page last updated in March 2021.