The Anatomy of Programming Languages

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Название:The Anatomy of Programming Languages

Автор: Alice E. Fischer, Frances S. Grodzinsky

Издательство: Prentice Hall

ISBN: 0130351555

Год: 1993

Страниц: 612 pages

Язык:Английский

Формат: PDF

Размер: 3.9 MB

This text is intended for a course in advanced programming languages or the structure of programming

language and should be appropriate for students at the junior, senior, or master's level.

It should help the student understand the principles that underlie all languages and all language

implementations.

This is a comprehensive text which attempts to dissect language and explain how a language

is really built. The first eleven chapters cover the core material: language specification, objects,

expressions, control, and types. The more concrete aspects of each topic are presented first, followed

by a discussion of implementation strategies and the related semantic issues. Later chapters

cover current topics, including modules, object-oriented programming, functional languages, and

concurrency constructs.

The emphasis throughout the text is on semantics and abstraction; the syntax and historical

development of languages are discussed in light of the underlying semantical concepts. Fundamental

principles of computation, communication, and good design are stated and are used to evaluate

various language constructs and to demonstrate that language designs are improving as these

principles become widely understood.

Examples are cited from many languages including Pascal, C, C++, FORTH, BASIC, LISP,

FORTRAN, Ada, COBOL, APL, Prolog, Turing, Miranda, and Haskell.