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HPL: Little Languages and Tools by Peter H. Salus (Editor) Shopping with us is 100% safe. Guaranteed. (We'll set one up for you) View my Wish List Our Price: $49.99 See larger photo Paperback - 685 pages (August 1998) Macmillan Technical Publishing; ISBN: 1578700108 ; Dimensions (in inches): 2.01 x 9.46 x 6.46 This item will be published in August 1998. You may order it now and we will ship it to you when it arrives. Amazon.com Sales Rank: 395,694 Avg. Customer Review: Number of Reviews: 1 Auctions and zShops sellers and our other stores recommend: Handbook of Programming Languages Vol 1 L@@K!! 50% OFF LIST 1578700086 (Current bid: $24.99) Handbook of Programming Languages Vol 3 L@@K!! 50% OFF LIST 1578700108 (Current bid: $24.99) Editorial Reviews Amazon.com In the third volume of the Handbook of Programming Languages series--Little Languages and Tools--editor Peter H. 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. 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. Next, there is a chapter on the EQN language for typesetting mathematical formulas. The volume continues with chapters on domain-specific languages in general and Unix formatting languages. Chapters 5 and 6 cover the awk and sed Unix utilities. A lengthy discussion of SQL and Tcl/Tk follows. The volume also covers Perl and Python--an amazingly useful freeware object-oriented scripting language. To round off this eclectic selection of languages, volume 3 finishes with coverage of several simple music-oriented languages such as MIDI, MUTRAN, and DDM. Even seasoned programmers are likely to be introduced to new languages in this volume.--Stephen Plain Book Description 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. Both papers are reprinted at the beginning of the Volume. They are followed by an essay by Paul Hudak on Domain Specific Languages. 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,*... read more Synopsis As the third volume of the "Handbook of Programming Languages", this comprehensive handbook covers the history, syntax, variable, tips and traps of the most widely used little languages and tools programming languages. The unique introductory material enables professional programmers to evaluate whether a specific language is appropriate for his or her use. Customers who bought titles by Peter H. Salus also bought titles by these authors: George Gilder Donald Ervin Knuth Mike Gancarz Uwe Thiem Chris Dibona Look for similar books by subject: Browse for books in: Computers & Internet > Graphics & Software > Business > Utilities Search for books by subject: Computer Books: Languages Computer Programming Languages Microcomputer Utilities Computer Bks - Languages / Programming Computers Programming Languages - General i.e., each book must be in subject 1 AND subject 2 AND ... I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book. I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book. Correct errors and omissions in this listing.