Re: Recent references on language design?

Ramesh <ditsdad@gmail.com>
Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:17:42 -0800 (PST)

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From: Ramesh <ditsdad@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:17:42 -0800 (PST)
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 09-12-037
Keywords: design
Posted-Date: 30 Dec 2009 02:05:31 EST

On Dec 20, 7:16 pm, Peng Yu <pengyu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.paulgraham.com/langdes.html
>
> I'm interested in understanding the ingredients that are important in
> designing a language that will be successful. I found some discussions
> in the above webpage. Some points are interesting to me. But it was
> written in 2001 and may not be covers anything that are important.
>
> I'm wondering if there are more detailed and recent references and
> research on language design (not on compiler implementation issues).


There are two types of references you might consider;
(i) Textbooks on programming language design/comparison
(ii) literature on Domain Specific Language design.


An example of each is below.


Programming Language Pragmatics (3rd edition 2009) (http://
www.cs.rochester.edu/~scott/pragmatics/) is a textbook that discusses
language design and implementation.


Some of the work on Domain Specific Language Design may also be of
interest to you;
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.6.735
is a recent survey.


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