Programming Languages: Principles and Paradigms

✍ Scribed by Maurizio Gabbrielli, Simone Martini (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 450
• Series: Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This excellent addition to the UTiCS series of undergraduate textbooks provides a detailed and up to date description of the main principles behind the design and implementation of modern programming languages.

Rather than focusing on a specific language, the book identifies the most important principles shared by large classes of languages. To complete this general approach, detailed descriptions of the main programming paradigms, namely imperative, object-oriented, functional and logic are given, analysed in depth and compared. This provides the basis for a critical understanding of most of the programming languages.

An historical viewpoint is also included, discussing the evolution of programming languages, and to provide a context for most of the constructs in use today. The book concludes with two chapters which introduce basic notions of syntax, semantics and computability, to provide a completely rounded picture of what constitutes a programming language.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XIX
Abstract Machines....Pages 1-25
How to Describe a Programming Language....Pages 27-55
Foundations....Pages 57-65
Names and The Environment....Pages 67-90
Memory Management....Pages 91-118
Control Structure....Pages 119-163
Control Abstraction....Pages 165-196
Structuring Data....Pages 197-263
Data Abstraction....Pages 265-276
The Object-Oriented Paradigm....Pages 277-332
The Functional Paradigm....Pages 333-367
The Logic Programming Paradigm....Pages 369-411
A Short Historical Perspective....Pages 413-432
Back Matter....Pages 433-440

✦ Subjects

Computer Science, general; Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters