Designed for the upper division Programming Languages course offered in computer science departments, this text focuses on the principles of the design and implementation of programming languages. The language SCHEME, a dialect of LISP, is used to demonstrate abstraction and representation.

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Daniel P. Friedman is Professor of Computer Science at Indiana University and is the author of many books published by the MIT Press, including The Little Schemer (fourth edition, 1995), The Seasoned Schemer (1995), A Little Java, A Few Patterns (1997), each of these coauthored with Matthias Felleisen, and The Reasoned Schemer (2005), coauthored with William E. Byrd and Oleg Kiselyov.

Mitchell Wand is Professor of Computer Science at Northeastern University.

Christopher T. Haynes is Associate Professor of Computer Science at Indiana University.

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