Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, VA 22401

Instructor: ec Ackermann

This link will take you to papers by students in CPSC 401

Some pointers to BNF resources on the WWW.

• About BNF notation . A quick overview of BNF from Th. Estier, CUI - University of Geneva.
• The BNF Web Club. A list of pointers to BNF descriptions of several languages including database, procedural, and non-procedural languages. "The BNF webs of each language and the syntactic diagrams were generated by "HyperGOS", a syntactic tools generator, developped at the University of Geneva by Jacques Guyot, Thibault Estier and Pascal Crausaz."

• Coronado Enterprises C++ Tutor
• Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming Using C++, Peter Muller, Globewide Network Academy (GNA)
• C++ Annotations, Version 3.4.10, Frank B. Brokken and Karel Kubat
• Fundamentals of Programming in C++ The TTT Online Learning System provides Topics (lecture notes) Tasks (with sample solutions) and Tests (multiple choice - interactively graded) for beginners who want to learn how to write programs in the C++ language. Lecture notes. By Errol Chopping, Charles Sturt University - Mitchell.

Some information about Ada.

• Information on using the GNAT compiler text
• Information on using the GNAT compiler HTML
• Lovelace Ada 95 Tutorial
• Some examples of Ada programs suitable for use with GNAT.
• Ada 95 Reference Manual
• Learning about Ada

AND --> some information about Scheme

• Scheme Home Page at MIT.
• MIT Scheme Reference Manual
• Revised(4) Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme
• MIT Scheme User's Manual
• Internet Scheme Repository

To join in or observe discussions about issues related to programming languages take a look at list of e-mail discussion groups focusing on programming languages.

The newsgroup for our course is mwc.cpsc.401

Here is a list of newsgroups we carry dealing with compilers and programming languages

• comp.compilers
• comp.lang.ada
• comp.lang.basic.visual
• comp.lang.c
• comp.lang.misc
• comp.lang.pascal
• comp.lang.prolog
• comp.lang.sigplan
• comp.lang.c++
• comp.lang.lisp
• comp.lang.lisp.x
• comp.lang.perl

Click here to browse a list of FAQs( Frequently Asked Questions and Answers) from some of the newsgroups for discussing programming languages.

The gopher server at PSGnet has some information about programming languages.

You may want to follow some of the links on the ACM Web server under the special interest group SIGPLAN

Here's another section of the ACM Gopher site that deals with Programming Languages and Language Theory

The simtel anonymous ftp archive has a number of directories dealing with specific programming languages, and most of the software is for MS-DOS computer systems.

The ftp archive site at University of Arizona has some directories dedicated to indiviual languages.