Research Catalog

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Description

1. xvi, 544 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

1. Design is an essential topic for all compuer science students regardless of whether or not they will ever have to create a programming language. The user who understands the motivation for various language facilities will be able to use them more intelligentlu; the compiler writer to implement them more reasonably. Implementation is also important since the language designer must be aware of the costs of the facilities provided. This text treats the design and implementation of programming languages as fundamental skills that all computer scientists should possess. It illustrates concepts with representative languages from five generations of language development. Design and implementation issues surrounding Fortran, Algol-60, Pascal, Ada, Lisp, SmallTalk, and Prolog are covered in-depth as case studies to illustrate larger themes. The implementation techniques discussed in this text are seminal; they form the basis of techniques that will continue to be useful and that can be varied to achieve a wide range of goals -- Provided by the publisher.
2. The purpose of this book is to teach the skills required to design and implement programming languages. Design is an important topic for all computer science students regardless of whether or not they will ever have to create a programming language. The user who understands the motivation for various language facilities will be able to use them more intelligently. The compiler writer who understands the motivation for these facilities will be able to implement them more reasonably. Implementation is also an important topic since the language designer must be aware of the costs of the facilities provided. Both topics are important to all computer scientists because all computer scientists use languages and because there is an increasing number of language-like human interfaces (word processors, command languages, etc.) that require these skills in their development. Thus, this book treats the design and implementation of programming languages as fundamental skills that all computer scientists should possess -- Preface.

Subject

1. Programming languages (Electronic computers)

Contents

1. The beginning: pseudo-code interpreters -- Emphasis on efficiency: FORTRAN -- Elegance and generality: Algol-60 -- Syntactic issues: Algol-60 -- Return to simplicity: Pascal -- Implementation of block structured languages -- Modularity and data abstraction: ADA -- Procedures and concurrency: ADA -- List processing: LISP -- Value-oriented programming: LISP -- Implementation of recursive list processors: LISP -- Object-oriented programming: Smalltalk -- Logic programming: PROLOG -- Principles of language design.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Note

1. Includes index.