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Syntax and Semantics of Programming Languages

https://homepage.cs.uiowa.edu/~slonnegr/plf/Book/
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ks2048•1h ago
It looks like this is the following book, if you want to read a two paragraph description (also a google search you lead you to a full-book PDF):

https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Formal-Syntax-Semantics-Programm...

froh•47m ago
Slonneger, Kenneth, and Kurtz, Barry L.. Formal syntax and semantics of programming languages : a laboratory based approach. United Kingdom, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1995.

as the Amazon app wants to switch country and closes if I don't. (party pooper).

from the Preface:

Laboratory Activities

Chapter 2: Scanning and parsing Wren

Chapter 3: Context checking Wren using an attribute grammar

Chapter 4: Context checking Hollerith literals using a two-level grammar

Chapter 5: Evaluating the lambda calculus using its reduction rules

Chapter 6: Self-definition of Scheme (Lisp) Self-definition of Prolog

Chapter 7: Translating (compiling) Wren programs following an attribute grammar

Chapter 8: Interpreting the lambda calculus using the SECD machine Interpreting Wren according to a definition using structural operational semantics

Chapter 9: Interpreting Wren following a denotational specification

Chapter 10: Evaluating a lambda calculus that includes recursive defini- tions

Chapter 12: Interpreting Wren according to an algebraic specification of the language

Chapter 13: Translating Pelican programs into action notation following a specification in action semantics.

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