Object-Oriented Programming Languages: Interpretation

✍ Scribed by Iain D. Craig MA, PhD (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 257
• Series: Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This comprehensive examination of the main approaches to object-oriented language explains the key features of the languages in use today. Class-based, prototypes and Actor languages are all looked at and compared in terms of their semantic concepts. In providing such a wide-ranging comparison, this book provides a unique overview of the main approaches to object-oriented languages.

Exercises of varying length, some of which can be extended into mini-projects are included at the end of each chapter. This book can be used as part of courses on Comparative Programming Languages or Programming Language Semantics at Second or Third Year Undergraduate Level. Some understanding of programming language concepts is required.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-VIII
Introduction....Pages 1-12
Class Fundamentals....Pages 13-55
Prototype and Actor Languages....Pages 57-82
Inheritance and Delegation....Pages 83-128
Methods....Pages 129-154
Types I: Types and Objects....Pages 155-183
Types II: Types and Objects–Alternatives....Pages 185-199
C#....Pages 201-230
BeCecil....Pages 231-240
Back Matter....Pages 241-252

✦ Subjects

Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters