Wilhelm Reinhard Libri

Informatics - 10 Years Back, 10 Years Ahead presents a unique collection of expository papers on major current issues in the field of computer science and information technology. The 26 contributions written by leading researchers on personal invitation assess the state of the art of the field by looking back over the past decade, presenting important results, identifying relevant open problems, and developing visions for the decade to come. This book marks two remarkable and festive moments: the 10th anniversary of the International Research and Conference Center for Computer Science in Dagstuhl, Germany and the 2000th volume published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

While compilers for high-level programming languages are large complex software systems, they have particular characteristics that differentiate them from other software systems. Their functionality is almost completely well-defined – ideally there exist complete precise descriptions of the source and target languages. Additional descriptions of the interfaces to the operating system, programming system and programming environment, and to other compilers and libraries are often available. This book deals with the analysis phase of translators for programming languages. It describes lexical, syntactic and semantic analysis, specification mechanisms for these tasks from the theory of formal languages, and methods for automatic generation based on the theory of automata. The authors present a conceptual translation structure, i. e., a division into a set of modules, which transform an input program into a sequence of steps in a machine program, and they then describe the interfaces between the modules. Finally, the structures of real translators are outlined. The book contains the necessary theory and advice for implementation. This book is intended for students of computer science. The book is supported throughout with examples, exercises and program fragments.

Es ist für Fachleute wie Laien immer wieder überraschend, wie die Errungenschaften der Informatik das Leben der Menschen verbessern können, manchmal sogar in Richtungen, welche die Menschen gar nicht unbedingt wünschen. Die aus der Zeitschrift Informatik Spektrum stammenden Glossen in diesem Buch beschreiben kurzweilig und mit viel Humor viele solcher Errungenschaften: Wie sie entstehen, weshalb sie vielleicht doch nicht so groß sind und was noch auf uns zukommt.Eine amüsante Lektüre für Informatiker und ihre gequälten Anwender.

Das Geheimnis der Goldenen Blüte. Ein chinesisches Lebensbuch. Mit einem europäischen Kommentar von C. G. Jung. Olten und Freiburg im Breisgau, Walter, 1971. 3., unveränderte Auflage. XXI, 124 S. Mit Frontispiz, 10 ganzseitigen Abbildungen auf Kunstdrucktafeln und 7 Abbildungen im Text. Originalleinen mit original Schutzumschlag. Gr.-8°.