Exploring Programming Language Architecture in Perl
by Bill Hails
2010
ISBN-13: 9781445225920
Number of pages: 368
Description:
This book presents an informal and friendly introduction to some of the core ideas in modern computer science, using the programming language Perl as its vehicle. The book takes the form of a series of working interpreters for the language PScheme, which is a variant of Scheme. Each version of the interpreter builds upon the previous one, until by the end of the book the PScheme language is quite fully functional and has some interesting surprises.
Download or read it online for free here:
Download link
(2.7MB, PDF)
Similar books
Higher-Order Perl: Transforming Programs with Programsby Mark Jason Dominus - Morgan Kaufmann
Perl incorporates many advanced features that are not well understood and are rarely used by most Perl programmers, but they are very powerful. One of these techniques is writing functions that manufacture or modify other functions.
(18893 views)
Unix and Perl Primer for Biologistsby Keith Bradnam, Ian Korf - Korf Lab
We have written a basic introductory course for biologists to learn the essential aspects of the Perl programming language. The course is very much aimed at people with no prior experience in either programming or Unix operating system.
(14887 views)
Perl for Beginnersby Geoffrey Sampson - BookBoon
Contents: Introduction; Getting started; Data types; Operators; Branches; Program layout; Built-in functions; Loops; Reading from a file; Pattern matching; Writing to a file; Arrays; Lists; Scalar versus list context; Two-dimensional tables; etc.
(13352 views)
Perl 5 Internalsby Simon Cozens - NetThink
A three-hour course which provides a hands-on introduction to how the perl interpreter works internally, how to go about testing and fixing bugs in the interpreter, and what the internals are likely to look like in the future of Perl, Perl 6.
(12582 views)