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In this chapter we describe the motivations and objectives of the book, and we provide information useful to both students and instructors. We outline the structure of the book and explain why it should be useful for readers who wish to acquire a deep understanding of the foundations of formal languages, including grammars, abstract machines, algorithms for language analysis and translation, and many simple examples.
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This term may sound strange; it originates in the early approach to the compilation of tables of correspondence between a command in the language and a series of machine operations.
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Crespi Reghizzi, S., Breveglieri, L., Morzenti, A. (2013). Introduction. In: Formal Languages and Compilation. Texts in Computer Science. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5514-0_1
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