Programming Language Pragmatics,

Edition 5

Editors: By Michael Scott and Jonathan Aldrich

Publication Date: 09 May 2025

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Programming Language Pragmatics is the most comprehensive programming language textbook available today, with nearly 1000 pages of content in the book, plus hundreds more pages of reference materials and ancillaries online. Michael Scott takes theperspective that language design and language implementation are tightly interconnected, and that neither can be fully understood in isolation. In an approachable, readable style, he discusses more than 50 languages in the context of understanding how code isinterpreted or compiled, providing an organizational framework for learning new languages, regardless of platform. This edition has been thoroughly updated to cover the most recent developments in programming language design and provides both a solid understanding of the most important issues driving software development today

Key Features

Provides a complete re-write of the chapter on semantic analysis, using formal inference rules
Includes a heavy revision of the chapter on type systems
Presents significant updates to the chapters on composite types, object orientation, and code generation
Covers new material on ownership types, safe concurrency, asynchronous programming, traits, move constructors, template “concepts,” the LLVM compiler infrastructure, and many other topics

About the author

By Michael Scott, Professor and past Chair, Computer Science Department, University of Rochester, USA and Jonathan Aldrich, Institute for Software Research and Computer Science Department, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

I. Foundations
1. Introduction
2. Programming Language Syntax
3. Names, Scopes, Bindings
4. Semantic Analysis
5. Target Machine Architecture

II. Core Issues in Language Design
6. Control Flow
7. Data Types
8. Composite Types
9. Subroutines and Control Abstraction
10. Data Abstraction and Object Orientation

III. Alternative Programming Models
11. Functional Languages
12. Logic Languages
13. Concurrency
14. Scripting Languages

IV. A Closer Look at Implementation
15. Building a Runnable Program
16. Run-time Program Management
17. Code Improvement

ISBN: 9780323999663

Page Count: 992

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