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Programming languages : design and implementation / Terence W. Pratt and Marvin Zelkowitz.

By: Pratt, Terence W.
Contributor(s): Zelkowitz, Marvin.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice Hall, 1995Edition: 3rd ed.Description: xvi, 768 p. ; 24 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0136785336.Subject(s): Programming languages (Electronic computers)DDC classification: 005.13
Contents:
Part I: Concepts -- The Study of Programming Languages -- Language Design Issues -- Language Translation Issues -- Data Types -- Abstraction I: Encapsulation -- Sequence Control -- Subprogram Control -- Abstraction II: Inheritance -- Advances in Language Design -- Part II: Paradigms and Languages -- Simple Procedural Languages -- Block-Structured Procedural Languages -- Object-Based Languages -- Functional Languages -- Logic Programming Languages.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This text is designed to provide students with a broad and deep understanding of the major issues in both design and implementation of modern programming languages and a basic introduction to the underlying theoretical models on which these languages are based. The emphasis throughout is on fundamental concepts - students learn important ideas, not minor language differences. New to this edition are discussions of the major programming paradigms: imperative/procedural, object-based, object-oriented, functional, relational/logic, and parallel/distributed, as well as new languages - SmallTalk, C, C++, Scheme, Modula-2, Prolog, Occam, and Linda. There is continued coverage of Ada, Lisp, Pascal and Fortran.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 632-640) and index.

Part I: Concepts -- The Study of Programming Languages -- Language Design Issues -- Language Translation Issues -- Data Types -- Abstraction I: Encapsulation -- Sequence Control -- Subprogram Control -- Abstraction II: Inheritance -- Advances in Language Design -- Part II: Paradigms and Languages -- Simple Procedural Languages -- Block-Structured Procedural Languages -- Object-Based Languages -- Functional Languages -- Logic Programming Languages.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • 1 Language Design Issues
  • Why Study Programming Languages? A Short History of Programming Languages
  • Role of Programming Languages
  • Programming Environments
  • C Overview
  • 2 Impact of Machine Architectures
  • The Operation of a Computer
  • Virtual Computers and Binding Times
  • 3 Language Translation Issues
  • Programming Language Syntax
  • Stages in Translation
  • Formal Translation Models
  • Recursive Descent Parsing
  • Pascal Overview
  • 4 Modeling Language Properties
  • Formal Properties of Languages
  • Language Semantics
  • 5 Elementary Data Types
  • Properties of Types and Objects
  • Scalar Data Types
  • Composite Data Types
  • FORTRAN Overview
  • 6 Encapsulation
  • Structured Data Types
  • Abstract Data Types
  • Encapsulation by Subprograms
  • Type Definitions
  • C++ Overview
  • 7 Inheritance
  • Abstract Data Types Revisited
  • Inheritance
  • Polymorphism
  • 8 Sequence Control
  • Implicit and Explicit Sequence Control
  • Sequencing with Arithmetic Expressions
  • Sequence Control between Statements
  • Sequencing with Nonarithmetic Expressions
  • 9 Subprogram Control
  • Subprogram Sequence Control
  • Attributes of Data Control
  • Parameter Transmission
  • Explicit Common Environments
  • 10 Storage Management
  • Elements Requiring Storage
  • Programmer- and System-Controlled Storage
  • Static Storage Management
  • Heap Storage Management
  • 11 Distributed Processing
  • Variations on Subprogram Control
  • Parallel Programming
  • Hardware Developments
  • Software Architecture
  • 12 Network Programming
  • Desktop Publishing
  • The World Wide Web
  • Appendix: Language Summaries
  • Ada
  • C
  • C++
  • FORTRAN
  • Java
  • LISP
  • ML
  • Pascal
  • Perl
  • Postscript
  • Prolog
  • Smalltalk
  • References
  • Index