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Programming Language Design and Implementation

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  • Nov 2025
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Authors:
  1. Torben Ægidius Mogensen

    1. Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

  • 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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About this book

This concise 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
  • (NEW)  Integrates coverage on the history of programming languages, types, modules, domain-specific languages, and quantum computation
  • Includes many technical exercises and discussion exercises
  • (NEW) Contains significant expansions to many chapters and sections
  • 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.

Torben Ægidius Mogensen is Associate Professor at the Dept. of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

 

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Torben Ægidius Mogensen

About the author

Torben Mogensen has taught programming language design, implementation, and transformation at the University of Copenhagen for over three decades. He is the author of the successful Springer textbook, Introduction to Compiler Design.

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Programming Language Design and Implementation

  • Authors: Torben Ægidius Mogensen

  • Series Title: Texts in Computer Science

  • 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 2026

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-93298-4Due: 19 November 2025

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-93301-1Due: 19 November 2026

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-93299-1Due: 19 November 2025

  • Series ISSN: 1868-0941

  • Series E-ISSN: 1868-095X

  • Edition Number: 2

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 350

  • Number of Illustrations: 79 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour

Keywords

  • Language Paradigms
  • Semantics
  • Control Structures
  • Parameter Passing
  • Memory Management

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