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Concepts in Programming Languages

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ISBN-10: 0521780985

ISBN-13: 9780521780988

Edition: 2001

Authors: John C. Mitchell

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Written for undergraduates and beginning graduate students, this textbook examines and explains the central concepts used in modern programming languages but focuses especially on object-oriented languages like Java and C++.
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Book details

List price: $109.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/14/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 540
Size: 7.32" wide x 10.31" long x 1.22" tall
Weight: 2.838
Language: English

Carl A. Gunter is Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania.

Functions and Foundations
Introduction
Computability
Lisp: functions, recursion and lists
Fundamentals
Procedures, Types, Memory Management and Control
The Algol family and ML
Type systems and type inference
Scope, functions and storage management
Control in sequential languages
Modularity, Abstraction and Object-Oriented Programming
Data abstraction and modularity
Concepts in object-oriented languages
History of objects: simula and smalltalk
Objects and run-time efficiency: C++
Portability and safety: Java
Concurrency and Logic Programming
Concurrent and distributed programming
The logic programming paradigm and prolog by Krzysztof Apt
Appendix: additional programming examples
Glossary