Programming Language Concepts (Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science)

Peter Sestoft

ISBN 10: 331960788X / ISBN 13: 9783319607887

Published by Springer 2017-09-12, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Programming Language Concepts (Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science)
• Publisher: Springer 2017-09-12
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 331960788X
• ISBN 13: 9783319607887
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This is the first programming language concepts and compiler book based on the functional language F#

Topics covered include language design, implementation and performance consequences for the mainstream object-orientated languages Java and C#

Relates the C language and its compilation, both to an abstract stack machine and to real x86 hardware

Exercises inside with full source code for examples and concepts permit experimentation

About the Author

Peter Sestoft is professor and head of department at the IT University of Copenhagen. He has 25 years teaching experience and his research interests include functional and object-oriented programming languages, the implementation of such languages, and parallel programming on multicore machines. He is the author or co-author of six books published by MIT Press, Morgan Kaufmann, Prentice-Hall and Springer.