Programming language essentials
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Programming language essentials
(International computer science series)
Addison-Wesley, c1994
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 258-263) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A concise guide through the bewildering variety of modern programming languages, this book focuses on essential concepts to provide a firm foundation for comparative study.
Table of Contents
Preface
1 Aspects of Programming Languages
1.1 Why programming languages?
1.2 Some history
1.3 Paradigms and the structure of this book
1.4 The structure of programs
1.5 Programming languages as communication media
1.6 Managing and reducing complexity
1.7 Program processing
Summary
Bibliographical notes
Exercises
2 Imperative Languages
2.1 Principles
2.2 Data
2.3 State
2.4 Flow-of-control
2.5 Program composition
2.6 Examples of imperative languages
Summary
Bibliographical notes
Exercises
3 Object-oriented Languages
3.1 principles
3.2 Classes
3.3 Inheritance
3.4 Inheritance and class hierarchies
3.5 Inheritance and types
3.6 Inheritance and polymorphism
3.7 Dynamic binding
3.8 Reference semantics
3.9 When to use inheritance
3.10 Discussion
3.11 Example languages
Summary
Bibliographical notes
Exercises
4 Functional Languages
4.1 Principles
4.2 Functions
4.3 Lists
4.4 Types and polymorphisms
4.5 Higher-order function s
4.6 Currying
4.7 Lazy evaluation
4.8 Equations and pattern matching cont/...
4.9 Example programs
4.10 Example language
Summary
Bibliographical notes
Exercises
5 Logic Languages
5.1 Principles
5.2 Horn clauses
5.3 Executing Horn clauses
5.4 Logical variables
5.5 Relations
5.6 Data structures
5.7 Controlling the search order
5.8 Example programs
5.9 Example languages
Summary
Bibliographical notes
Exercises
6 Parallel and Distributed Languages
6.1 Principles
6.2 Parallelism
6.3 Communication and synchronization
6.4 Languages based on other paradigms
6.5 Example languages
Summary
Bibliographical notes
Exercises
7 Other Paradigms
7.1 Additional general-purpose paradigms
7.2 Additional special-purpose paradigms
Summary
Bibliographical notes
Exercises
Appendix A references to Languages
Appendix B Answers to Exercises
References
Index
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