Programming Languages: Principles and Paradigms

1. Auflage. 2010
ISBN: 978-1-84882-913-8
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 440 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1420 g

Reihe: Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science

This excellent addition to the UTiCS series of undergraduate textbooks provides a detailed and up to date description of the main principles behind the design and implementation of modern programming languages.

Rather than focusing on a specific language, the book identifies the most important principles shared by large classes of languages. To complete this general approach, detailed descriptions of the main programming paradigms, namely imperative, object-oriented, functional and logic are given, analysed in depth and compared. This provides the basis for a critical understanding of most of the programming languages.

An historical viewpoint is also included, discussing the evolution of programming languages, and to provide a context for most of the constructs in use today. The book concludes with two chapters which introduce basic notions of syntax, semantics and computability, to provide a completely rounded picture of what constitutes a programming language.

Zielgruppe

Lower undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gabbrielli, Maurizio

Martini, Simone

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Programmier- und Skriptsprachen
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Logik, formale Sprachen, Automaten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abstract Machines.- How to Describe a Programming Language.- Foundations.- Names and The Environment.- Memory Management.- Control Structure.- Control Abstraction.- Structuring Data.- Data Abstraction.- The Object-Oriented Paradigm.- The Functional Paradigm.- The Logic Programming Paradigm.- A Short Historical Perspective.