Concepts of Programming Languages: United States Edition - Hardcover

Sebesta, Robert W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0201752956 ISBN 13: 9780201752953

Publisher: Pearson, 2001

Synopsis

The fifth edition of Concepts of Programming Languages by Robert Sebesta continues the approach that has made it the undisputed market leader. It describes fundamental concepts of programming languages by presenting design issues of the various language constructs, examining the design choices for these constructs in a few common languages, and critically comparing the design alternatives. This is an ideal text for students taking a comparative programming languages course: it allows those with the ability to program to learn how to choose appropriate languages for certain tasks, increase their abilities to learn new languages, and understand the significance of implementation. This new edition is updated to include a new chapter covering parsing, new material on JavaScript, and updated material on Java1.3.

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This best-selling book, now in its fourth edition, provides a wide-ranging and in-depth discussion of programming language concepts. As in previous editions, author Bob Sebesta describes fundamental concepts of programming languages by presenting design issues of the various language constructs, examining the design choices for these constructs in a few common languages, and critically comparing the design alternatives. The book covers the most widely used methods of syntax description and introduces the most common approaches to describing the semantics of programming languages. Discussions of implementation methods and issues are integrated throughout the book.

New to the Fourth Edition

• Offers coverage of Java™ support for object-oriented programming, concurrency, and exception shandling
• Features object-oriented programming more prominently - the expanded OO coverage appears earlier in the book and is also intertwined with the discussions of the non-OO imperative languages
• Provides expanded material on semantics, including a proof of correctness of a complete program using axiomatic semantics

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Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0201752956
• ISBN 13: 9780201752953
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 720