HPL: Little Languages and Tools
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| Rating | : | 4.41 (580 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1578700108 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 685 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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What a God-awful mess! I'm giving this two stars because even in a random mess like this, some of the bits are of interest.The first problem here is what a "handbook" should be -- a reference? Or a survey? If it's supposed to be at least somewhat of a survey, as I expect, I'd expect the classification/taxonomy/ontology to be good. But this volume is called "Little Languages and Tools". Well, Forth is a little language, LOGO is a little language, most assembler languages are very little languages, and some say Scheme is a little language -- and none of those are in here! If the edi. A Bum Rap? Jevons & Hollerith Books Some reviews for individual volumes in this set, as well as one for the set as a whole, complain of (1) omissions and (2) unmet expectations. A short quote from Peter Salus' introduction may help put these complaints in context: "The aim is to provide a single comprehensive source of information concerning a variety of individual programming languages and methodologies for computing professionals." This work is intended to show the shape of a discipline and its history. It is not a programmer's reference manual.Comprehensive does not mean all-inclusive. Any
They are followed by an essay by Paul Hudak on Domain Specific Languages. Both papers are reprinted at the beginning of the Volume. Langston.. The notion of Little Languages was introduced by Jon Bentley in his discussion of Kernighan's and Cherry's eqn -- a troff preprocessor for typesetting mathematics. The remainder of the volume features languages and tools that every programmer needs to use: -- troff and its pre-processors by Jaap Akkerhuis-- AWK and sed by Arnold Robbins-- SQL by David Klappholz-- Tcl/Tk by Cameron Laird and Kathy Soraiz-- Perl by Hal Pomeranz-- Python by Mark Lutz-- Little Languages for Music by Peter S
Salus presents several domain-specific programming languages and tools that are critical to getting certain jobs done in real-world applications. Though it is not by any means a comprehensive survey of such "little" languages, this volume covers many of the important ones. Next, there is a chapter on the EQN language for typesetting mathematical formulas. In the third volume of the Handbook of Programming Languages series--Little Languages and Tools--editor Peter H. The book starts with a discussion of Pic--a special-purpose language used to generate line drawings and that was used to create all of the diagrams in this volume. Chapters 5 and 6 cover the awk and sed Unix utilities. The volume continues with chapters on domain-spe