title: Programming Languages: Design and Implementation (4th Edition)
author:  Terrence W. Pratt 
description: <P><STRONG></STRONG><I>Exceptionally</I>comprehensive in approach, this book explores the major issues in both design<I>and</I>implementation of modern programming languages and provides a basic introduction to the underlying theoretical models on which these languages are based. The emphasis throughout is on fundamental concepts&#8212;readers learn important ideas, not minor language differences--but several languages<I>are</I>highlighted in sufficient detail to enable readers to write programs that demonstrate the relationship between a source program and its execution behavior--e.g., C, C++, JAVA, ML, LISP, Prolog, Smalltalk, Postscript, HTML, PERL, FORTRAN, Ada, COBOL, BASIC SNOBOL4, PL/I, Pascal.<STRONG></STRONG>Begins with a background review of programming languages and the underlying hardware that will execute the given program; then covers the underlying grammatical model for programming languages and their compilers &#40;elementary data types, data structures and encapsulation, inheritance, statements, procedure invocation, storage management, distributed processing, and network programming&#41;. Includes an advanced chapter on language semantics--program verification, denotational semantics, and the lambda calculus.<STRONG></STRONG>For computer engineers and others interested in programming language designs.</P>
zlib_text: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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  Edited by G. Goos, J. Hartmanis and J. van Leeuwen
  
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  Programming
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  10th European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2001
  Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences
  on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2001
  Genova, Italy, April 2-6, 2001
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  Series Editors
  Gerhard Goos, Karlsruhe University, Germany
  Juris Hartmanis, Cornell University, NY, USA
  Jan van Leeuwen, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
  Volume Editor
  David Sands
  Chalmers University of Technology and Götebor g University
  Department of Computing Science
  412 96 Götebor g, Sweden
  E-mail: dave@cs.chalmers.se
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