Programming Language Design Concepts (Paperback)

Paperback. This book explains the concepts underlying programming languages, and demonstrates how these concepts are synthesized in the major paradigms: imperative, OO, concurrent, functional, logic and scripting. It gives greatest prominence to the OO paradigm, and uses Java as the main exemplar language. It includes numerous examples, case studies of several major programming languages, and numerous end-of-chapter exercises. Sample solutions to most of the exercises are provided at the books companion Web site Explains the concepts underlying programming languages, and demonstrates how these concepts are synthesized in the paradigms: imperative, OO, concurrent, functional, logic and with scripting languages. This book includes numerous examples using C, Java and C++ as exemplar languages. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.