Programming Language Pragmatics, Third Edition (英文pdf版)

In Praise of Programming Language Pragmatics,Third Edition

The ubiquity of computers in everyday life in the 21

st

century justifies the centrality of program-

ming languages to computer science education. Programming languages is the area that connects the

theoretical foundations of computer science, the source of problem-solving algorithms, to modern

computer architectures on which the corresponding programs produce solutions. Given the speed

with which computing technology advances in this post-Internet era, a computing textbook must

present a structure for organizing information about a subject, not just the facts of the subject itself.

In this book, Michael Scott broadly and comprehensively presents the key concepts of programming

— Tim Harris, Microsoft Research

matics. In addition to coverage of traditional language topics, this text delves into the sometimes

obscure, but always necessary, details of fielding programming artifacts. This new edition is current

in its coverage of modern language fundamentals, and now includes new and updated material on

modern run-time environments, including virtual machines. This book is an excellent introduction

for anyone wishing to develop languages for real-world applications.

Michael Scott has improved this new edition of Programming Language Pragmatic in big and small

ways. Changes include the addition of even more insightful examples, the conversion of Pascal

— Christopher Vickery, Queens College of CUNY

implications with hundreds of examples from the most popular and influential programming lan-

topics such as virtual machines, just-in-time compilation and symbolic debugging.