Concepts of Programming Languages

Author: John C. Mitchell, Krzysztof Apt
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Publish Date: 2005-10-01
Features: Concepts of Programming Languages A good programming language is a conceptual world of its own for thinking about programming. — Alan Perlis, NATO Software Engineering Technology Conference, Rome, 1969 Programming languages provide the necessary abstraction mechanisms, organizational principles, and control structures for programmers to write good programs. This book introduces the concepts that appear in programming languages, that is, the problems that arise during the implementation of programming languages, as well as the impact of language design on program development.