Re: Looking for papers/book on the art of language design

Hi,


I would say designing a language is a kind of black art that cannot be
daught in a tutorial. Sir Tony Hoare is always an invaluable source for
citings. Read for instance "Hints for Programming Language Design" and
"The Emperors Old Clothes". Finkel's "Advanced Programming Language
Design" (also available online) has also a list of properties a GPL
should have. However, the design of a language depends heavily on the
application domain (even for GPLs).


Regards,


Kai Koehne


Kevin Szabo schrieb:
> 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. ...

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