Programming Languages: Design and Implementation

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.