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Imperative Languages

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This chapter discusses imperative programming languages , in which the value of a variable may be modified by assignment. We first present a naive imperative language where a variable denotes an updatable store cell, and then present the environment/store model used in real imperative programming languages. Then we show how to evaluate micro-C, a C-style imperative language, using an interpreter, and present the concepts of expression, variable declaration, assignment, loop, output, variable scope, lvalue and rvalue, parameter passing mechanisms, pointer, array, and pointer arithmetics.

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Sestoft, P. (2017). Imperative Languages. In: Programming Language Concepts. Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60789-4_7

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