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Programming Languages: Design and Implementation (4th Edition) 4th Edition

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Exceptionally comprehensive in approach, this book explores the major issues in both design and implementation of modern programming languages and provides a basic introduction to the underlying theoretical models on which these languages are based. The emphasis throughout is on fundamental concepts—readers learn important ideas, not minor language differences--but several languages are highlighted in sufficient detail to enable readers to write programs that demonstrate the relationship between a source program and its execution behavior--e.g., C, C++, JAVA, ML, LISP, Prolog, Smalltalk, Postscript, HTML, PERL, FORTRAN, Ada, COBOL, BASIC SNOBOL4, PL/I, Pascal. Begins with a background review of programming languages and the underlying hardware that will execute the given program; then covers the underlying grammatical model for programming languages and their compilers (elementary data types, data structures and encapsulation, inheritance, statements, procedure invocation, storage management, distributed processing, and network programming). Includes an advanced chapter on language semantics--program verification, denotational semantics, and the lambda calculus. For computer engineers and others interested in programming language designs.

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    0130276782
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    978-0130276780
  3. Edition
    4th
  4. Publisher
    Pearson
  5. Publication date
    September 7, 2000
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    7 x 1.5 x 9.2 inches
  8. Print length
    672 pages
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Exceptionally comprehensive in approach, this book explores the major issues in both design and implementation of modern programming languages and provides a basic introduction to the underlying theoretical models on which these languages are based. The emphasis throughout is on fundamental concepts—readers learn important ideas, not minor language differences--but several languages are highlighted in sufficient detail to enable readers to write programs that demonstrate the relationship between a source program and its execution behavior--e.g., C, C++, JAVA, ML, LISP, Prolog, Smalltalk, Postscript, HTML, PERL, FORTRAN, Ada, COBOL, BASIC SNOBOL4, PL/I, Pascal. Begins with a background review of programming languages and the underlying hardware that will execute the given program; then covers the underlying grammatical model for programming languages and their compilers (elementary data types, data structures and encapsulation, inheritance, statements, procedure invocation, storage management, distributed processing, and network programming). Includes an advanced chapter on language semantics--program verification, denotational semantics, and the lambda calculus. For computer engineers and others interested in programming language designs.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pearson; 4th edition (September 7, 2000)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 672 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0130276782
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0130276780
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.46 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 1.5 x 9.2 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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PJ
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome book. Will buy from this buyer in future.
Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2014
Awesome! Book looks like new and well binded. No sign of wear. More over price is $.067, yes it is $0.67
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Jane Q Public
3.0 out of 5 stars Outdated, but a good introduction
Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2010
This edition is from 1975, and it shows. There is no mention of Java or C++ or even C: they hadn't been invented yet. But there is a good overview of the major languages of the time that provides a fascinating glimpse into programming history and programming language development.

Besides programming language development, the text also provides a good introduction to the hardware/software interface (arithmetic-logic unit, pipelining, &tc.), the Backus-Naur Format, differences between interpreted and compiled languages, and a brief introduction via example into the differences between iterative and functional programming, threading, and simple data structures. The languages covered in this edition are FORTRAN (1971), ALGOL60, COBOL, PL/I, SNOBOL4, and LISP 1.5
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Muthuswamy Bharadwaj
5.0 out of 5 stars What a programmer needs before programming languages
Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2000
I should have written this review years ago except that Internet was not much of a thing when I first read Pratt's book. If I am where I am today as a developer with multiple language skills, it is thanks to Pratt. His approach to introducing languages to a developer is unique - first the concepts followed by how various languages implement the concepts. Wirth's "Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs" approaches the same subject but from a different angle. I like Pratt's approach. If you want to be in the developer community, this is what you should read BEFORE you lay your hands on any programming book.
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Joselito Surdilla
3.0 out of 5 stars Dry but of Substance
Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2005
This book is one of the driest book in computer science that I read. It may take a little bit more effort to read than other computer science book, but the topic and its explanation are not incomprehensible. If you are willing to put time and effort, you will gain quite a lot of information out of it.

It is true that this is not UP TO DATE and some information have been outdated and needs revision. However, many of these topics are fundamentals of different languages that most of these explanations and theory are very much applicable today as they were a decade or so ago.

What many students are forgetting is that this is a concepts book. Many arrivals in the technology are going to come and go, but the important thing is the ability to draw on from the knowledge you have and make analysis, comparison, and contrast. This is a very good way to mature in and gain a better understanding of subject materials.
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Eleanor Saitta
1.0 out of 5 stars Outdated, technically inaccurate.
Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2001
Althought the authors tried hard, this book really isn't worth the time it takes to read. The book is littered with numerous errors, both technical and theoretical. The writing quality is poor, and the typesetting renders most code samples almost unreadable. The book has been very poorly updated, and still shows a world-view strongly anchored in it's first 1975 edition. A chapter on the web has been tacked on in an effort to make the book seem modern, but the authors seem to be considering html a programming language worthy of inclusion. Although the authors play lip service to explaining the theoretical concepts behind programming language theory, many of their statements are simply given on faith, and the times they do attempt explanations, they are generally either poor or very incomplete.
Please, do yourself a favor and get a copy of David Gelernter and Suresh Jagannathan's Programming Linguistics. If you want more of the math behind the theory, John Mitchell's Foundations for Programming Languages is excellent as a supplement, and Jaco de Bakker and Erik de Vink's Control Flow Semantics covers formal semantics from a more strongly mathematical perspective (the other two books are probably prerequisites for this).
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Greg
1.0 out of 5 stars Horrible Text
Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2004
Please do not get this book. I had this for a class - At first the beginning chapters are simple and easy to comprehend. Starting at about chapter 3 or 4 it is really confusing and the questions at the end of the chapter have nothing to do with the chapter at all, and they must be looked up on the Internet anyway! Even looking up the questions on the Internet was extremely difficult. Answering 4 or 5 questions at the end of each chapter was taking literally hours. You have to read the chapters many, many times to get any comprehension, and even then you will still be dumbfounded. Believe me, what they are talking about in the text could be A LOT more easily stated and shown. Please convince your professor to not use this text. You will be sorry - and I pity anyone who has been required to waste money on this book.
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Syed S Husain
1.0 out of 5 stars Terrible, absolutely terrible
Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2002
I had to use this for a class and boy was I dissapointed. This book relies more on words than examples. Each sentance feels like a mouthful, packed with words that each refer to a concept in programming. Subsequently, you either have to read extremely slow, or read the paragraph over and over before you understand what the author is trying to say. Extremely unclear and frustrating. Avoid this book.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Programming Languages: Design and Implementation
Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2000
Very good book for the developer who wish to design a good solid software program.
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Jordan
3.0 out of 5 stars I've got one of the older editions which is great as it goes into lots of detail about some ...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 2, 2015
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Really dry, but lots of information. I've got one of the older editions which is great as it goes into lots of detail about some languages that I otherwise wouldn't get to experience
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