Programming Languages: Concepts and Implementation

List of Figures

1.1 Conceptual depiction of a set of objects communicating by message passing.

1.2 Within the context of their support for a variety of programming styles, all languages involve a core set of universal concepts.

1.3 Programming languages and the styles of programming therein are conduits into computation.

1.4 Evolution of programming languages across a time axis.

1.5 Factors influencing language design.

2.1 A finite-state automaton for a legal identifier and positive integer in C.

2.2 The dual nature of grammars as generative and recognition devices.

2.3 Two parse trees for the expression x + y * z.

2.4 Parse trees for the expression x.

2.5 Parse tree for the expression 132.

2.6 Parse trees for the expression 1 + 3 + 2. ...