Overview
- Self-contained and straightforward approach that requires some familiarity with only one programming language (unlike many competitor books)
- Clearly separates between the design, implementation and pragmatic aspects of programming languages
- Explicit treatment of the main programming paradigms
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science (UTICS)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This excellent addition to the UTiCS series of undergraduate textbooks provides a detailed and up to date description of the main principles behind the design and implementation of modern programming languages.
Rather than focusing on a specific language, the book identifies the most important principles shared by large classes of languages. To complete this general approach, detailed descriptions of the main programming paradigms, namely imperative, object-oriented, functional and logic are given, analysed in depth and compared. This provides the basis for a critical understanding of most of the programming languages.
An historical viewpoint is also included, discussing the evolution of programming languages, and to provide a context for most of the constructs in use today. The book concludes with two chapters which introduce basic notions of syntax, semantics and computability, to provide a completely rounded picture of what constitutes a programming language.Reviews
From the reviews:
“This undergraduate textbook on the principles of programming languages has many commendable aspects. It is grounded on sound principles of computing, with machines taking a central role. The authors use activation stacks and other machine-level abstractions to explain many complex ideas--such as scopes and evaluation mechanisms--in concrete terms. Furthermore, many aspects of C++, Java, and C# are covered and contrasted in substantial detail. … In short, what the text covers, it covers well … .” (Simon Thompson, ACM Computing Reviews, January, 2011)
“This book provides a detailed description of the main principles behind the design and implementation of modern programming languages. … Primarily, the text is intended as a university textbook, but is also suitable for personal study of professionals who wish to deepen their knowledge of the mechanisms that lie behind the languages they use.” (Stefan Meyer, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1204, 2011)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Programming Languages: Principles and Paradigms
Authors: Maurizio Gabbrielli, Simone Martini
Series Title: Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-914-5
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London Ltd., part of Springer Nature 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-84882-913-8Published: 15 April 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-84882-914-5Published: 23 March 2010
Series ISSN: 1863-7310
Series E-ISSN: 2197-1781
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 440
Topics: Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems, Computer Science, general, Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters
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