Simone Martini - Böcker

Programming Languages is a self-contained approach to the topic, and differentiates between the design, implementation and pragmatic aspects of programming languages overall. The main programming paradigms are presented, in a straightforward way.

This textbook is a thorough, up-to-date introduction to the principles and techniques that guide the design and implementation of modern programming languages. The goal of the book is to provide the basis for a critical understanding of most modern programming languages. Thus, rather than focusing on a specific language, the book identifies the most important principles shared by large classes of languages. The notion of ‘abstract machine’ is a unifying concept that helps to maintain an accurate and elementary treatment. The book introduces, analyses in depth, and compares the imperative, object-oriented, functional, logic, concurrent, constraint-based, and service-oriented programming paradigms. All material coming from the first English edition has been updated and extended, clarifying some tricky points, and discussing newer programming languages. This second edition contains new chapters dedicated to constraint, concurrent, and service-oriented programming.Topics and features:Requires familiarity with one programming language is a prerequisiteProvides a chapter on history offering context for most of the constructs in use todayPresents an elementary account of semantical approaches and of computabilityIntroduces new examples in modern programming languages like Python or ScalaOffers a chapter that opens a perspective on applications in artificial intelligenceConceived as a university textbook, this unique volume will also be suitable for IT specialists who want to deepen their knowledge of the mechanisms behind the languages they use. The choice of themes and the presentation style are largely influenced by the experience of teaching the content as part of a bachelor's degree in computer science.

This volume presents the proceedings of the Computer ScienceLogic Workshop CSL '92, held in Pisa, Italy, inSeptember/October 1992. CSL '92 was the sixth of the seriesand the first one held as Annual Conference of the EuropeanAssociation for Computer Science Logic (EACSL). Fullversions of the workshop contributions were collected aftertheir presentation and reviewed. On the basis of 58 reviews,26 papers were selected for publication, and appear here inrevised final form. Topics covered in the volume include: Turing machines,linear logic, logic of proofs, optimization problems, lambdacalculus, fixpoint logic, NP-completeness, resolution,transition system semantics, higher order partial functions,evolving algebras, functional logic programming, inductivedefinability, semantics of C, classes for a functionallanguage, NP-optimization problems, theory of types andnames, sconing and relators, 3-satisfiability, Kleene'sslash, negation-complete logic programs, polynomial-timeoracle machines, and monadic second-order properties.