Design is an essential topic for all compuer science students regardless of whether or not they will ever have to create a programming language. The user who understands the motivation for various language facilities will be able to use them more intelligentlu; the compiler writer to implement them more reasonably. Implementation is also important since the language designer must be aware of the costs of the facilities provided. This text treats the design and implementation of programming languages as fundamental skills that all computer scientists should possess. It illustrates concepts with representative languages from five generations of language development. Design and implementation issues surrounding Fortran, Algol-60, Pascal, Ada, Lisp, SmallTalk, and Prolog are covered in-depth as case studies to illustrate larger themes. The implementation techniques discussed in this text are seminal; they form the basis of techniques that will continue to be useful and that can be varied to achieve a wide range of goals.

Principles of Programming Languages: Design, Evaluation, and Implementation

Computers & Technology

MacLennan, Bruce J.

Software

Oxford University Press

Completely revised and updated, the third edition of Principles of Programming Languages: Design, Evaluation, and Implementation teaches key design and implementation skills essential for language designers, compiler writers, and other computer scientists. It also covers descriptive tools and historical precedents so that students can understand design issues in their historical context. Ideal for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses in programming languages and comparative languages, this text uses a unique horizontal organization that analyzes individual languages in their entirety, facilitating discussion of the interrelationships between the parts of a language. It teaches design skills by emphasizing basic principles more than details, focuses on methods of implementation over specific techniques, and presents concepts inductively. In-depth case studies of representative languages from five generations of programming language design (Fortran, Algol-60, Pascal, Ada, LISP, Smalltalk, and Prolog) are used to illustrate larger themes. This third edition adds discussions of the phenomenology of programming languages, the role of conceptual models in language design, language size and complexity, and system implementation languages (with an emphasis on C). It covers programming environments (as illustrated by the Interlisp system) and recent developments in object-oriented programming (including C++, Ada 95, CLOS, and Java), and expands the discussion of multiple inheritance. Historical information has been updated to reflect new developments in the industry and many new exercises have been added as well.

Programming Languages

This manual includes a suggested teaching schedule, additional chapter comments, and answers to selected end-of-chapter exercises in the book. It is available free for instructors upon adoption of the main text.

Instructor's Manual for Principles of Programming Languages: Design, Evaluation, and Implementation

This book is more than an introduction to programming in functional languages; it introduces functional programming as a new programming paradigm. Its focus is on functional programming methodology--what it is, and how it can be used to good effect. In particular, the book shows how this methodology can be used effectively in deriving, analyzing, and proving the correctness of programs. In as much as this book emphasizes general methodology over any particular language, the author has chosen standard mathematical notation for his examples.

Functional Programming: Practice and Theory

Programming

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Principles of Programming Languages: Design, Evaluation, and Implementation

Principles of Programming Languages: Design, Evaluation, and Implementation

Principles of Programming Languages: Design, Evaluation, and Implementation

Instructor's Manual for Principles of Programming Languages: Design, Evaluation, and Implementation

Functional Programming: Practice and Theory