Even though this book was published ten years ago, it has aged very well. This is due to the presentation of general rather than specific concepts, where the general is still applicable. The presentation begins with the syntax and semantics of the basic operations that computers perform. Topics such as binding, l-values, r-values, routines, nesting, recursion and dynamic allocation are covered in chapter 2.
Chapter 3 is called "Structuring the data" and describes the internal representations of types like sets, enumerated types and abstract data types. Pointers and garbage collection are also examined. Chapter four covers the control constructs, exception handling and the tactics used to manage concurrent computations. In chapter 5, the topics are how a program is structured and organized into modules, how data is encapsulated in classes and the use if generic structures. The topic of chapter 6 is object-oriented programming and the topic of chapter 7 is functional programming... Read more

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