Programming Languages: Build, Prove, and Compare - Hardcover

Ramsey, Norman

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9781107180185: Programming Languages: Build, Prove, and Compare
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 110718018X ISBN 13: 9781107180185
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2022

Synopsis

Computer scientists often need to learn new programming languages quickly. The best way to prepare for this is to understand the foundational principles that underlie even the most complicated industrial languages. This text for an undergraduate programming languages course distills great languages and their design principles down to easy-to-learn 'bridge' languages implemented by interpreters whose key parts are explained in the text. The book goes deep into the roots of both functional and object-oriented programming, and it shows how types and modules, including generics/polymorphism, contribute to effective programming. The book is not just about programming languages; it is also about programming. Through concepts, examples, and more than 300 practice exercises that exploit the interpreter, students learn not only what programming-language features are but also how to do things with them. Substantial implementation projects include Milner's type inference, both copying and mark-and-sweep garbage collection, and arithmetic on arbitrary-precision integers.

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About the Author

Norman Ramsey is Associate Professor of Computer Science at Tufts University. Since earning his Ph.D. at Princeton, he has worked in industry and has taught programming languages, advanced functional programming, programming-language implementation, and technical writing at Purdue, the University of Virginia, and Harvard as well as Tufts. He has received Tufts's Lerman-Neubauer Prize, awarded annually to one outstanding undergraduate teacher. He has also been a Hertz Fellow and an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow. His implementation credits include a code generator for the Standard ML of New Jersey compiler and another for the Glasgow Haskell Compiler.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2022
Language
English
ISBN 10 
110718018X
ISBN 13 
9781107180185
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
600
Rating
  • 3.00 out of 5 stars
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