Programming Language Design and Implementation

<p>This textbook is intended as a guide for programming-language designers and users to better help them understand consequences of design decisions.</p><p>The text aims to provide readers with an overview of the design space for programming languages and how design choices affect implementation. It is not a classical compilers book, as it assumes the reader is familiar with basic compiler implementation techniques; nor is it a traditional comparative programming languages book, because it does not go into depth about any particular language, instead taking examples from a wide variety of programming languages to illustrate design concepts. Readers are assumed to already have done at least a bit of programming in functional, imperative, and object-oriented languages.</p><p><b>Topics and features:</b></p><p></p><ul><li>Provides topic-by-topic coverage of syntax, types, scopes, memory management and more</li><li>Includes many technical exercises and discussion exercises</li><li>Inspires readers to think about language design choices, how these interact, and how they can be implemented</li><li>Covers advanced topics such as formal semantics and limits of computation</li></ul><p></p><p>Suitable for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduates, this highly practical and useful textbook/guide will also offer programming language professionals a superb reference and learning toolkit.</p>