HPL Little Languages and Tools Author:Peter Salus 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 a... more »nd 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. Langston.
Unique leaders in the field of little languages and tools programming provide insightful information about the language that they helped to create
A complete handbook covering the most widely used little languages and tools programming languages
Comprehensive coverage of each language includes history, syntax, variables, tips and traps
Unique introductory material enables professional programmers to evaluate whether a specific language is appropriate for his or her use