Programming languages and their definition
Hans Bekić, Cliff B. Jones · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 1984
This chapter sets the scene for the rest of the book. Sections 1.1–1.3 outline the problems presented by programming languages and their related tools; Section 1.4 points out that there is material from the study of natural languages that is relevant to the problems of describing artificial languages such as those used to program computers; an overview of a range of techniques for recording the meaning of programming languages is given in Section 1.5 and Section 1.6 introduces the specific notation used throughout this book.