Programming Languages: Design and Implementation

by Terrence W. Pratt, Marvin V. Zelkowitz

Exceptionally comprehensive in approach, this book explores the major issues in both design and implementation of modern programming languages and provides a basic introduction to the underlying theoretical models on which these languages are based. The emphasis throughout is on fundamental concepts—readers learn important ideas, not minor language differences--but several languages are highlighted in sufficient detail to enable readers to write programs that demonstrate the relationship between a source program and its execution behavior--e.g., C, C++, JAVA, ML, LISP, Prolog, Smalltalk, Postscript, HTML, PERL, FORTRAN, Ada, COBOL, BASIC SNOBOL4, PL/I, Pascal. Begins with a background review of programming languages and the underlying hardware that will execute the given program; then covers the underlying grammatical model for programming languages and their compilers (elementary data types, data structures and encapsulation, inheritance, statements, procedure invocation, storage management, distributed processing, and network programming). Includes an advanced chapter on language semantics--program verification, denotational semantics, and the lambda calculus. For computer engineers and others interested in programming language designs.

Genres: Computer Science, Programming, Programming Languages, Textbooks, Science

672 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

Reviews

[Nick Black · Rating 2 out of 5]

There's really very little to recommend this book. About two hundred better texts exist on this topic, some of them with almost indistinguishable titles. I give it a second star only because the bold black spine looks striking among the largely-garish bottom-feeders of my "uninspiring computer science" shelves, here taking a page from Grading the Flags.

[Nabeel]

this is book in my cs sourse

[Sum]

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[Eduardo]

very good

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