High-Level Languages and Their Compilers

The book begins with a comparative study of the design and characteristics of high-level languages. This provides a foundation for the main part of the book, which describes the theory and practice of compiler design, concentrating on the implementation of imperative languages. The final part examines methods for implementing a high-level language system and provides the basis of laboratory work allowing the reader to write and implement a complete compiler for a language of moderate complexity.

Features of the book include:

• Thorough coverage of all parts of a compiler and design principles
• An overview of the development of programming languages and a comparison of their compilers
• Examples coded in Pascal, but all the main languages are covered
• Examples and exercises throughout the text

The author is a lecturer at the University of Sussex, where the material for the book has been successfully class-tested over a number of years.