Language theory: syntax and semantics

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The student will be able to :

recognize problems that can be analyzed using regular expressions, context-free grammars, attribute grammars ;
formalize the problem and use software tools to execute this formalization (e.g. build a small compiler).

Learn the main theories and tools for language engineering, compilation, interpretation

Semantics

Semantics

The book for exercises (in French) is :

Théorie des Langages de Programmation : Syntaxe et Sémantique

Eléments Théoriques et Exercices - 163 pages

Michaël Marcozzi

60% Written exam

40% The evaluation of the project is done through automatic testing, a report, an individual exam.

Aho, Sethi, Ullman: "Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools" Addison Wesley (ISBN 9780201100884)
R. Wilhelm, D. Maurer: "Compiler Design" Addison-Wesley
Dick Grune, Henri E. Bal, Ceriel J.H. Jacobs, Koen G. Langendoen, "Modern Compiler Design", John Wiley & Sons
John Levine, Tony Mason & Doug Brown « lex & yacc », ISBN 1-56592-000-7, 366 pages.
M. Hennessy: "The semantics of programming languages: an elementary introduction using structural operational semantics", Wiley, 1990.
G. Winskel: "The Formal Semantics of Programming Languages: An Introduction.", MIT Press, 1993.
T. Parr: "The Definitive ANTLR Reference", The Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2013.

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