COMS W4115 Programming Languages and Translators COMS W4115 Programming Languages and Translators Fall 2015 Lectures Class meets Mondays and Wednesdays 4:10 - 5:25 PM 207 Mathematics. Staff Name Email Office hours Location Prof. Edwards see my home page 462 CSB Richard Townsend F 2-4 TA Room (Mudd 1st floor) Prachi Shukla T 10-12 468 CSB David Arthur Th 2-4 TA Room (Mudd 1st floor) Lixin Yao M 10-11, W 11-12 TA Room (Mudd 1st floor) Aquila Khanam T 5:30-7:30 TA Room (Mudd 1st floor) Overview The goal of PLT is to teach you both about the structure of computer programming languages and the basics of implementing compilers for such languages. The course will focus mostly on traditional imperative and object-oriented languages, but will also cover functional and logic programming, concurrency issues, and some aspects of scripting languages.

The innovative approach of the first edition of Programming Language Pragmatics provided students with an integrated view of programming language design and implementation, while offering a solid teaching text on timely language topics in a rigorous yet accessible style. Operating SystemThis CD can be used under any operating system that includes an HTML browser and a PDF viewer. This includes. Programming Language Pragmatics, Volume 1. Thoroughly updated to reflect the most current developments in language design and implementation, the second edition.

Homework and tests will cover language issues. You will design and implement a language of your own design in a semester-long group project.

While few of you will ever implement a full commercial compiler professionally, the concepts, techniques, and tools you will learn have broad application. Prerequisites COMS W3157 Advanced Programming: You will be dividing into teams to build a compiler, so you need to have some idea how to keep this under control.

Quick test: you need to know about Makefiles and source code control systems. COMS W3261 Computability and Models of Computation: You will need an understanding of formal languages and grammar to build the parser and lexical analyzer. Quick test: you must know about regular expressions, context-free grammars, and NFAs. Schedule Date Session Lecture Notes Reading Due Wed Sep 9 1 Intro. To Languages Ch 1, 2 Mon Sep 14 2 Language Processors Ch. 2 Wed Sep 16 3 Programming in OCaml Mon Sep 21 4 ' Wed Sep 23 5 Guest lecture Mon Sep 28 6 Ocaml contd.

Wed Sep 30 7 ' Proposal Mon Oct 5 8 ' Wed Oct 7 9 Syntax and Parsing Ch. 3, 4 Mon Oct 12 10 ' Wed Oct 14 11 ' HW1 Mon Oct 19 12 ' Wed Oct 21 13 The MicroC Compiler App. A HW2 Mon Oct 26 14 Review for Midterm LRM Wed Oct 28 Midterm Exam Mon Nov 2 Election Day Holiday Wed Nov 4 15 MicroC Contd. Mon Nov 9 16 MicroC Contd. Wed Nov 11 17 Types and Static Semantics Sec.

6.5 Mon Nov 16 18 Runtime Environments Ch. 7 Hello World Wed Nov 18 19 ' Mon Nov 23 20 ' Wed Nov 25 21 Code Generation Mon Nov 30 22 The Lambda Calculus Wed Dec 2 23 ' Mon Dec 7 24 Logic Programming HW3 Wed Dec 9 25 Review for Final Mon Dec 14 Final Exam Tue Dec 22 Project Reports Due Required Text Alfred V. Aho, Monica Lam, Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey D.

Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools. Addison-Wesley, 2006. Second Edition. The first edition was long the standard text on compilers; the second edition of the ``dragon book' has now been updated and continues to be one of the more readable books on the topic.

Columbia's own Prof. Al Aho is one of the authors.

Related Texts Michael L. Morgan Kaufmann, 2006. Second Edition. A broad-minded book about languages in general, but has less on practical details of compiler construction. Cambridge University Press, 1998. The opposite of Scott: focuses on compiler construction, not language design issues.

It uses the functional language ML, which is closely related to O'Caml, but just different enough to be annoying. Cambridge University Press, 1996. Second edition. A book about functional programming. It's written for the ML language, not O'Caml, but the two are closely related.

Muchnick Advanced Compiler Design and Implementation. Morgan Kaufmann, 1997. A very extensive book on many aspects of compiler design. Starts about halfway through Appel and goes much farther. Recommended for serious compiler hackers only. Objective Caml Resources The Caml Language Homepage.

Compiler downloads and documentation. The Objective Caml System.

Civil Procedure Rules 1998 Pdf. Documentation and User's Manual for the whole system, including documentation for ocamllex, ocamlyacc, ocamldep, ocamldebug, and all the standard libraries. Jason Hickey, Introduction to Objective Caml. One of my favorite books on O'Caml. Emmanuel Chailloux, Pascal Manoury, and Bruno Pagano, Developing Applications with Objective Caml. An online book translated from the French (O'Reilly). Objective CAML Tutorial O'Caml source for the four-function calculator. O'Caml source and test cases for the microc language.