Programming Languages

Description

This book is a much more appropriate book for a modern programming languages course than a traditional one based on paradigms. Topics covered includes: Parsing, Interpretation, Desugaring, Adding Functions to the Language, From Substitution to Environments, Functions Anywhere, Mutation: Structures and Variables, Recursion and Cycles: Procedures and Data, Objects, Memory Management, Representation Decisions, Desugaring as a Language Feature, Control Operations, Checking Program Invariants Statically: Types, Checking Program Invariants Dynamically: Contracts and Alternate Application Semantics.