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Title: Write Your Own Programming Language Using C++ (Popular Applications Series) by Norman E. Smith ISBN: 1-55622-492-3 Publisher: Wordware Publishing Pub. Date: March, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95

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Average Customer Rating: 2 (2 reviews)

Rating: 1
Summary: Reading about someone else's programming language using CALL
Comment: Of all the books on programming I've purchased on Amazon, thisis perhaps the worst book I've ever read. The author claims to showyou how to "incorporate" the idea of a *scripting* languageinto your applications. However, the entire focus of the book isteaching you to use CALC and UNTIL, the author's scripting languageexamples. If one takes the time, I'm sure the source code for theinterpretur (which isn't even looked at in the book)is possiblywritten clearly enough to be useful to a good programmer, but as thedisk that came with my copy has never held information, I am unable totell the aspiring programmer if even that much is worth it.

All inall, a waste of money unless you happen to be into studing fairlyoutdated programming styles and languages. And Forth.

Rating: 3
Summary: Misleading title
Comment: The title of this book should be "Write Your Own Forth Interpreter in C++", because that's what it is. While Forth is definetely a programming language, it is a very peculiar one. A Forth interpreter doesn't need a parser, for instance. Forth is the only language I know (besides assembly, but assembly is not really a language) that is LR(0). Hence, most of what you will learn here doesn't apply to other languages such as Pascal or C. If you're looking for a book on Forth, this is a good choice. But if you're looking for a book on writting compilers and interpreters, go after another one. Anyway, by the time the book arrived, I had already dicovered Oleg Shamshura's Pseudo-Forth and had found all I wanted to know about Forth by browsing his well documented souce code.