Description
This book discusses the concepts behind programming languages, and how these concepts are synthesized in the major paradigms. It gives greatest prominence to the OO paradigm, and includes numerous examples using C, Java and C++ as exmplar languages. Additionally, it examines the motivation of programming languages not just their features. The book also includes extensive end-of-chapter exercises with sample solutions on the companion Web site.
Explains the concepts underlying programming languages, and demonstrates how these concepts are synthesized in the major paradigms: imperative, OO, concurrent, functional, logic and with recent scripting languages. It gives greatest prominence to the OO paradigm.
- Includes numerous examples using C, Java and C++ as exmplar languages
- Additional case-study languages: Python, Haskell, Prolog and Ada
- Extensive end-of-chapter exercises with sample solutions on the companion Web site
- Deepens study by examining the motivation of programming languages not just their features