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- Print Length: 944 pages
- Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann; 3 edition (March 23, 2009)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00550AV8G
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Free Programming Language Pragmatics
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!