Search -
Programming Languages: Concepts and Constructs
Programming Languages Concepts and Constructs Author:Ravi Sethi Programming Languages: Concepts and Constructs, Second Edition retains the "character" of the original, emphasizing concepts and how they work together. This classic book has been thoroughly revised to provide readable coverage of the major programming paradigms. — Dr. Sethi's treatment of the core concepts of imperative programming... more » languages like Pascal anf C flows smoothly into object oriented programming in C++ and SmallTalk. The charm of functional languages is illustrated by programs in standard ML and the Scheme dialect of Lisp. Logic programming is introduced using Prolog.
Highlights
* Organised in parts with self contained coverage of the major paradigms
* Expended discussion of object-oriented programming
* Thorough revision of imperative and functional programming, with new chapters on data types and programming in ML.
Novices, who have been introduced to programming in some language, will learn from this book how to relate concepts while designers and implementers will be exposed to the major programming paradigms.
Example programs from the book are available as source code. These are available by anonymous ftp at ftp://ftp.aw.com/cseng/authors/sethi/pl2e. Use the login name anonymous with your email address as the password.
Ravi Sethi, director of Computing Science Research, has been at AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey since 1976. He has held teaching position at Pennsylvania State University and Rutgers. Dr. Sethi is co-author of the "dragon book", Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools and has written numerous articles. His books have been translated in Japanese, German, French, Italian, Spanish and Korean.
Access the latest information and Addison-Wesley books from our internet gopher site or visit our World Wide Web page: