Programming Language Pragmatics
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| Title: | Programming Language Pragmatics |
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| Description: | The innovative approach of the first edition of Programming Language Pragmatics provided students with an integrated view of programming language design and implementation, while offering a solid teaching text on timely language topics in a rigorous yet accessible style. The new edition carries on these distinctive features as well as the signature tradition of illustrating the most recent developments in programming language design with a variety of modern programming languages.Addresses the most recent developments in programming language design, including C99, C#, and Java 5Introduces and discusses scripting languages throughout the book as well as in an entire new chapterIncludes a comprehensive chapter on concurrency, with coverage of the new Java concurrency package (JSR 166) and the comparable mechanisms in C#Updates many sections and topics, including iterators, exceptions, polymorphism, templates/generics, scope rules and declaration ordering, separate compilation, garbage collection, and threads and synchronizationHighlights the interaction and tradeoffs inherent in language design and language implementation decisions with over 100'Design and Implementation'call-out boxesAdds end-of-chapter'Exploration'exercises—open-ended, research-type activitiesProvides review questions after sections for quick self-assessmentIncludes over 800 numbered examples to help the reader quickly cross-reference and access content |
| Authors: | Michael L. Scott |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Programming languages (Electronic computers) |
| Categories: | COMPUTERS / Languages / General, COMPUTERS / Computer Architecture, COMPUTERS / Computer Science |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | The innovative approach of the first edition of Programming Language Pragmatics provided students with an integrated view of programming language design and implementation, while offering a solid teaching text on timely language topics in a rigorous yet accessible style. The new edition carries on these distinctive features as well as the signature tradition of illustrating the most recent developments in programming language design with a variety of modern programming languages.Addresses the most recent developments in programming language design, including C99, C#, and Java 5Introduces and discusses scripting languages throughout the book as well as in an entire new chapterIncludes a comprehensive chapter on concurrency, with coverage of the new Java concurrency package (JSR 166) and the comparable mechanisms in C#Updates many sections and topics, including iterators, exceptions, polymorphism, templates/generics, scope rules and declaration ordering, separate compilation, garbage collection, and threads and synchronizationHighlights the interaction and tradeoffs inherent in language design and language implementation decisions with over 100'Design and Implementation'call-out boxesAdds end-of-chapter'Exploration'exercises—open-ended, research-type activitiesProvides review questions after sections for quick self-assessmentIncludes over 800 numbered examples to help the reader quickly cross-reference and access content |
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| ISBN: | 9780126339512 9780080515168 |
