December 2021
Beginner
840 pages
47h 29m
English
Content preview from Programming Languages: Concepts and Implementation
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1.1 Text Objectives
The objectives of this text are to:
Establish an understanding of fundamental and universal language concepts and design/implementation options for them.
Improve readers’ ability to understand new programming languages and enhance their background for selecting appropriate languages.
Expose readers to alternative styles of programming and exotic ways of performing computation so to establish an increased capacity for describing computation in a program, a richer toolbox of techniques from which to solve problems, and a more holistic picture of computing.
Since language concepts are the building blocks from which all languages are constructed and organized, an understanding of the concepts implies that, given a (new) language, ...