Programming language design concepts
- Hoboken, NJ John Wiley & Sons 2004
- xviii, 473 pages illustrations 24 cm
Includes index
Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-451) and index.
Part I. Introduction -- 1. Programming languages -- Part II. Basic concepts -- 2. Values and types -- 3. Variables and storage -- 4. Bindings and scope -- 5. Procedural abstraction -- Part III. Advanced concepts -- 6. Data abstraction -- 7. Generic abstraction -- 8. Type systems -- 9. Control flow -- 10. Concurrency -- Part IV. Paradigms -- 11. Imperative programming -- 12. Object-oriented programming -- 13. Concurrent programming -- 14. Functional programming -- 15. Logic programming -- 16. Scripting -- Part V. Conclusion -- 17. Language selection -- 18. Language design.
Reflecting current trends where object-oriented (OO) programming has taken over from imperative programming as the dominant paradigm, this book gives greatest prominence to OO programming using Java and C++ as the main exemplar languages. Similarly, since the Web has revolutionized the computing industry, the need for examination of scripting languages, such as Perl and Python, has risen. With additional case study languages including Python, Haskell, Prolog and Ada, Programming Language Design Concepts deepens study by examining the motivation of programming languages rather than just their features. All programmers, not just language specialists, need a thorough understanding of language concepts in order to get the best of these most fundamental tools. This book explains the basic concepts that underpin all programming languages, and shows how these concepts are synthesized in the major paradigms: imperative, object-oriented, concurrent, functional, logic and scripting. Written in a clear, approachable style, the book includes numerous examples, case studies of several major programming languages, and end-of-chapter exercises. Sample solutions to exercises are available on the companion website.