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Programming languages are often described by stating the meaning of the constructs (expressions, statements, clauses, etc.) interpretively. This description implicitly defines an interpreter for an abstract machine whose machine language is the programming language.
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Waite, W.M., Goos, G. (1984). Properties of Programming Languages. In: Compiler Construction. Texts and Monographs in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5192-7_2
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