Programming Language Pragmatics - Softcover

Scott, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0124104096 ISBN 13: 9780124104099

Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann, 2015

Synopsis

Programming Language Pragmatics, Fourth Edition, is the most comprehensive programming language textbook available today. It is distinguished and acclaimed for its integrated treatment of language design and implementation, with an emphasis on the fundamental tradeoffs that continue to drive software development.

The book provides readers with a solid foundation in the syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of the full range of programming languages, from traditional languages like C to the latest in functional, scripting, and object-oriented programming.  This fourth edition has been heavily revised throughout, with expanded coverage of type systems and functional programming, a unified treatment of polymorphism, highlights of the newest language standards, and examples featuring the ARM and x86 64-bit architectures.

• Updated coverage of the latest developments in programming language design, including C & C++11, Java 8, C# 5, Scala, Go, Swift, Python 3, and HTML 5
• Updated treatment of functional programming, with extensive coverage of OCaml
• New chapters devoted to type systems and composite types
• Unified and updated treatment of polymorphism in all its forms
• New examples featuring the ARM and x86 64-bit architectures

About this title

About the Author:

Michael L. Scott is a professor in the University of Rochester s Department of Computer Science, which he chaired from 1996 to 1999. He is the designer of the Lynx distributed programming language and a co-designer of the Charlotte and Psyche parallel operating systems, the Bridge parallel file system, the Cashmere distributed shared memory system, and the MCS mutual exclusion lock. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1985.

Review:

"Michael Scott's book could have been entitled 'Why Programming Languages Work' ... Its comprehensive and integrated presentation of language design and implementation illustrates and explains admirably the many deep and profitable connections among these fields." -Jim Larus, Microsoft Research
"This book is the best and most complete on this topic that I've seen."   -Klaus Ostermann, Darmstadt University of Technology --Klaus Ostermann, Darmstadt University of Technology

About this edition

• Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0124104096
• ISBN 13: 9780124104099
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 992