Principles of Compiler Design

This semester I will be helping my B.E Computer Students to understand Compilers and its working.

OVERVIEW


A compiler or interptreter for a programminning language is often decomposed into two parts:

1. Read the source program and discover its structure.
2. Process this structure, e.g. to generate the target program.


Why to learn it?

To enhance understanding of programming languages


• To have an in-depths knowledge of low-level machine executables

• To write compilers and interpreters for various programming languages and domain-specific languages
   Examples: Java, JavaScript, C, C++, C#, Modula-3, Scheme, ML, Tcl/Tk, Database Query Lang., Mathematica, Matlab, Shell-Command-Languages, Awk, Perl, your .mailrc file, HTML, TeX, PostScript, Kermit scripts, .....

• To learn various system-building tools : Lex, Yacc, ...

• To learn interesting compiler theory and algorithms.

• To learn the beauty of programming in modern programming lang.