Subject Area: Programming Languages and Paradigms in CIDEC Library.

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE ESSENTIALS

Publisher : Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. - Wokingham, Eng. ; Reading, Mass.

Bibliographic :

• Paperback
• ISBN: 0201631792
• © 1994
• xv, 271 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
• Dewey No.: 005.13 20

• Programming languages (Electronic computers)
• Overviews, Introductions and Standards

A concise guide through the bewildering variety of modern programming languages, this book focuses on essential concepts to provide a firm foundation for comparative study.

Coverage includes:

• object-oriented languages (with C++)
• functional languages (with Miranda)
• logic languages (with Prolog)
• imperative languages (with ANSI C and Ada 9X)

CONTENTS :

Preface

1 Aspects of Programming Languages. 1.1 Why programming languages? 1.2 Some history 1.3 Paradigms and the structure of this book 1.4 The structure of programs 1.5 Programming languages as communication media 1.6 Managing and reducing complexity 1.7 Program processing * Summary * Bibliographical notes * Exercises

2 Imperative Languages. 2.1 Principles 2.2 Data 2.3 State 2.4 Flow-of-control 2.5 Program composition 2.6 Examples of imperative languages * Summary * Bibliographical notes * Exercises

3 Object-oriented Languages. 3.1 principles 3.2 Classes 3.3 Inheritance 3.4 Inheritance and class hierarchies 3.5 Inheritance and types 3.6 Inheritance and polymorphism 3.7 Dynamic binding 3.8 Reference semantics 3.9 When to use inheritance 3.10 Discussion 3.11 Example languages * Summary * Bibliographical notes * Exercises

4 Functional Languages. 4.1 Principles 4.2 Functions 4.3 Lists 4.4 Types and polymorphisms 4.5 Higher-order function s 4.6 Currying 4.7 Lazy evaluation 4.8 Equations and pattern matching cont/... 4.9 Example programs 4.10 Example language * Summary * Bibliographical notes * Exercises

5 Logic Languages. 5.1 Principles 5.2 Horn clauses 5.3 Executing Horn clauses 5.4 Logical variables 5.5 Relations 5.6 Data structures 5.7 Controlling the search order 5.8 Example programs 5.9 Example languages * Summary * Bibliographical notes * Exercises

6 Parallel and Distributed Languages. 6.1 Principles 6.2 Parallelism 6.3 Communication and synchronization 6.4 Languages based on other paradigms 6.5 Example languages * Summary * Bibliographical notes * Exercises

7 Other Paradigms. 7.1 Additional general-purpose paradigms 7.2 Additional special-purpose paradigms * Summary * Bibliographical notes * Exercises

Appendix A references to Languages * Appendix B Answers to Exercises

References (p. 258-263) * Index