You're reading from Building Programming Language Interpreters A bottom-up approach to runtimes, execution, and implementation in C++

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2026

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781837638079

Length 372 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Programming Language

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Daniel Ruoso

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Table of Contents (25) Chapters

Preface

1. Modeling the Programming Language Runtime Environment

2. Defining the Scope FREE CHAPTER

3. The Blurred Lines Between Native Code, Virtual Machines, and Interpreters

4. Instructions, Concurrency, Inputs, and Outputs

5. Native Types, User Types, and Extension Points

6. Putting It All Together: Making Trade-Off Decisions

7. Modeling the Programming Language Syntax

8. Review of Programming Language Paradigms

9. Values, Containers, and the Language Meta-Model

10. Lexical Scopes

11. Putting It All Together and Creating a Coherent Vision

12. Implementing the Interpreter Runtime

13. Initialization and Entry Point

14. Execution Frames, the Stack, and Continuations

15. Running and Testing Language Operators

16. Interpreting Source Code

17. Lexing: Turning Text into a Stream of Tokens

18. Parsing: Turning a Stream of Tokens into a Parse Tree

19. Analyzing: Turning a Parse Tree into an Abstract Syntax Tree

20. Generating: Turning an Abstract Syntax Tree into Instructions

21. Proving That It Works

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24. Index

Modeling the Programming Language Syntax

In this part, you will focus on developing the syntax for the language while at the same time exercising the process of designing a programming language—from general programming language paradigms, through the type system of the language and naming of entities, and finally to a concrete syntax.

This part has the following chapters:

Chapter 6, Review of Programming Language Paradigms
Chapter 7, Values, Containers, and the Language Meta-Model
Chapter 8, Lexical Scopes
Chapter 9, Putting It All Together and Creating a Coherent Vision

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