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Compilers and Interpreters

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A Practical Approach to Compiler Construction

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Before looking at the details of programming language implementation, we need to examine some of the characteristics of programming languages to find out how they are structured and defined.

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    Des Watson

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Watson, D. (2017). Compilers and Interpreters. In: A Practical Approach to Compiler Construction. Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52789-5_2

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