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The OrIgIn of this monograph is a course entitled "Semantics directed Compiler Generation" which Professor Neil D. Jones gave in 1982 at Copenhagen University, where I was a student at the time. In this course, he described a compiler generator, called CERES, which he was developing. I immediately felt attracted to the unusual combination of mathematical reasoning about com pilers and the small intricate building blocks that made up the running system. As I came to understand the system I discovered that within the existing mathematical framework one could express compiler generation as a special case of compilation; this led to a specification of a compiler generator which was bootstrapped on itself resulting in a machine-generated compiler generator. The purpose of this monograph is to describe the CERES system we produced in 1983-84 and compare it with other systems, includ ing more recent ones. Also, it is as relevant today as it was then to discuss the role of compiler generators as an aid in the design and implementation of programming languages; this I do in Chap. 5. This monograph is a strongly revised version of the cando scient.

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Book category Books in English Computing & information technology Computer programming / software development Compilers

• Full title: Compiler Generators
• Subtitle: What They Can Do, What They Might Do, and What They Will Probably Never Do
• Author: Mads Tofte
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 147
• EAN: 9783540514718
• ISBN: 3540514716
• ID: 02718203
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
• Weight: 1180 g
• Dimensions: 254 × 178 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 27. June 1990

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