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Programming Language Pragmatics is the most comprehensive programming language textbook available today. Taking the perspective that language design and language implementation are tightly interconnected, and that neither can be fully understood in isolation, this critically acclaimed and bestselling book has been thoroughly updated to cover the most recent developments in programming language design. With a new chapter on run-time program management and expanded coverage of concurrency, this new edition provides both students and professionals alike with a solid understanding of the most important issues driving software development today.
- Classic programming foundations text now updated to familiarize students with the languages they are most likely to encounter in the workforce, including including Java 7, C++, C# 3.0, F#, Fortran 2008, Ada 2005, Scheme R6RS, and Perl 6.
- New and expanded coverage of concurrency and run-time systems ensures students and professionals understand the most important advances driving software today.
- Includes over 800 numbered examples to help the reader quickly cross-reference and access content.
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- Paperback: 944 pages
- Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann; 3 edition (April 6, 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0123745144
- ISBN-13: 978-0123745149
- Product Dimensions: 1.6 x 7.5 x 9.2 inches
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The authors and publishers here must not have heard that when you write one of the best texts on the market in a subject area, at nearly 1,000 pages, you're supposed to hose students and shoppers with the price! THANK YOU for CARING about our budgets!
As other reviewers have stated, this is NOT a beginner's book, as it assumes you know the basics of programming paradigms and structures. HOWEVER, if you know coding relatively well in at least one language, and understand the basics of compilers and machine-code interfaces, you CAN PROFIT GREATLY from this text with Wiki close at hand. For example, want to explore how name binding and scope differ between imperative and functional? This will give you the answers, but you'll need to re-study the concepts themselves to follow the logic, as the descriptions are both broad ranging and detailed.
We recommend this text to technical libraries along with two others: Engineering a Compiler, Second Edition and Programming Language Processors in Java: Compilers and Interpreters. Why? Because the ACADEMIC approach to this topic is almost always functional (read: Lisp, Scheme, Racket, Clojure, etc.) because those languages, although tough, make great IDE's/SDK's for creating an entire development environment, from machine language to compiler/interpreter, all virtual.
I'm into it and love Lisp, but if you then mention the word "practical" you and I both know that we're not going to be asked to solve a problem in Racket, even though we might model it there!