[antlr-interest] "Language design patterns" book available in beta

[J. Stephen Riley Silber]

No brainer.  Be terse with the example code, but have it all downloadable online.  Please do NOT skimp on the pattern explanations!  That's where this book is strongest.

For example, the top-down and bottom-up tree rewriting stuff on antlr.org?  I really didn't understand why some things should be top-down versus others being bottom-up.  Then I read that part of the book, and had one of those eureka moments.

Code I'm quite willing to go look online for.  Cogent explanations of things I don't deal with every day (and thus don't keep cached in main memory :-) I want a good dead-trees book for.

--- On Fri, 6/5/09, Terence Parr <parrt at cs.usfca.edu> wrote:

From: Terence Parr <parrt at cs.usfca.edu>
Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] "Language design patterns" book available in beta
To: "Edwards, Waverly" <Waverly.Edwards at genesys.com>
Cc: "antlr ANTLR" <antlr-interest at antlr.org>
Date: Friday, June 5, 2009, 10:40 AM

Glad to hear the book is meeting your expectations. I only have about  
80 pages left and I just consumed 26 of those four the first of the  
interpreter chapters. doh!

If I have to skimp to make it into only 350 pages, where should I be  
terse? should I skip patterns or should I include the full source code  
for the pattern and a less verbose description?

Ter

On Jun 5, 2009, at 7:00 AM, Edwards, Waverly wrote:

>
> I'll pay extra for the extra material.
>> From what I've seen so far, it will be well worth it.
>
>
> W.
>
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> ] On Behalf Of ugol
> Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 6:28 PM
> To: Terence Parr
> Cc: String Template Mailing LIst; antlr ANTLR
> Subject: Re: [antlr-interest] "Language design patterns" book  
> available in beta
>
>> ha! Yeah, we don't want to create a very intimidating huge book  
>> though.
>>
>> I know what you mean. as I started this interpreter chapter, I felt
>> like I  could finally start the book! I had gone through all of the
>> preliminary material.  Readers could parse, build an intermediate
>> representation, walk trees, track and resolve symbols, and do  
>> semantic
>> analysis such as static type checking.
>>
>
> If you really run out of pages, just publish additional material on
> the site... but limitating the most interesting part of the book is
> crazy!!!!!
>
> -- 
> uL
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