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Section 1: Programming Language Frontends

In this section, you will create a basic language design and implement the frontend of a compiler for it, including a lexical analyzer and a parser that builds a syntax tree from an input source file.

This section comprises the following chapters:

Chapter 1, Why Build Another Programming Language?
Chapter 2, Programming Language Design
Chapter 3, Scanning Source Code
Chapter 4, Parsing
Chapter 5, Syntax Trees

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