Concepts of Programming Languages

This best-selling book, now in its fourth edition, provides a wide-ranging and in-depth discussion of programming language concepts. As in previous editions, author Bob Sebesta describes fundamental concepts of programming languages by presenting design issues of the various language constructs, examining the design choices for these constructs in a few common languages, and critically comparing the design alternatives. The book covers the most widely used methods of syntax description and introduces the most common approaches to describing the semantics of programming languages. Discussions of implementation methods and issues are integrated throughout the book.

New to the Fourth Edition
Offers coverage of Java(tm) support for object-oriented programming, concurrency, and exception shandling Features object-oriented programming more prominently - the expanded OO coverage appears earlier in the book and is also intertwined with the discussions of the non-OO imperative languages Provides expanded material on semantics, including a proof of correctness of a complete program using axiomatic semantics

Robert Sebesta is an Associate Professor and Chairman of the Computer Science Department at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Professor Sebesta received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Pennsylvania State University and has been teaching computer science for over 25 years. His research interests are in programming languages, compiler design, and software testing methods and tools. He has been a consultant to FederalExpress, Hewlett-Packard, Ford Microelectronics, Paramax, and Labtek. Professor Sebesta is the author of several books, including texts on structured assembly language programming for the PDP-11 and VAX minicomputers. He is a member of the ACM and the IEEE Computer Society.

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