Lecture Programming languages (2/e): Chapter 3a - Tucker, Noonan

Chapter 3 - Lexical and syntactic analysis. A study of language syntax raises many questions. How does a compiler analyze the syntax of a program? How are syntax errors detected? How does a context-free grammar facilitate the development of a syntactic analyzer? These deeper questions about syntax are addressed in Chapter 3. Chapter 3a provide knowledge of chomsky hierarchy.