Overview
- Provides examples from a variety of languages to illustrate design concepts
- Organises chapters around core concepts
- Includes helpful discussion and sketches of implementation
Part of the book series: Texts in Computer Science (TCS)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This textbook is intended as a guide for programming-language designers and users to better help them understand consequences of design decisions.
The text aims to provide readers with an overview of the design space for programming languages and how design choices affect implementation. It is not a classical compilers book, as it assumes the reader is familiar with basic compiler implementation techniques; nor is it a traditional comparative programming languages book, because it does not go into depth about any particular language, instead taking examples from a wide variety of programming languages to illustrate design concepts. Readers are assumed to already have done at least a bit of programming in functional, imperative, and object-oriented languages.
Topics and features:
- Provides topic-by-topic coverage of syntax, types, scopes, memory management and more
- Includes many technical exercises and discussion exercises
- Inspires readers to think about language design choices, how these interact, and how they can be implemented
- Covers advanced topics such as formal semantics and limits of computation
Suitable for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduates, this highly practical and useful textbook/guide will also offer programming language professionals a superb reference and learning toolkit.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Programming Language Design and Implementation
Authors: Torben Ægidius Mogensen
Series Title: Texts in Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11806-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-11805-0Published: 23 November 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-11808-1Published: 23 November 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-11806-7Published: 22 November 2022
Series ISSN: 1868-0941
Series E-ISSN: 1868-095X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 323
Number of Illustrations: 81 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Professional Computing