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Advanced Programming Language Design

Advanced Programming Language Design
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By: Raphael Finkel (Author)  (Paperback - 1995)
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» Paperback: (512 pages)
» Publisher:  Addison-Wesley (December 31, 1995)
» ISBN: 0805311912
» Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.6 x 1.0 inches
» Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,436,419 in Books
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This accessible new volume examines and evaluates the principles of programming languages from both their common and language-specific elements. Each chapter is devoted to a particular programming language issue. These issues are illustrated with an example from one of the many programming languages used today.



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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book, October 9, 2004
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Derek W. Williams (Lexington, KY USA) - See all my reviews
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This is a wonderful book that covers tons of languages, including several that are far from the mainstream. The author demonstrates a very strong knowledge of all concepts discussed in the book, and wording is very clear and concise. This is an excellent book for undergradute or graduate courses on programming languages.
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5 of 8 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Excruciating to get through!, June 2, 2009
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This book is awful! There is nothing positive I can say about it. It is also thirteen years old and very out of date.

The book purports to be "modern," but among the more than seventy languages Finkel discusses are many that have fallen into disuse, or have never been implemented, or were only implemented as academic curiosities. At the end of Chapter 1 on Page 28 he says, "The language concepts introduced here are in some sense classical Algol-like structures. They are developed in various directions in the following chapters ..." Much of the book emphasizes non-imperative languages. That may be fine for those in an academic environment looking to do research, but be aware that it has little to do with what most programmers do for a living. Besides Algol, most of the book is based on Ada, APL, CLU, Fortran, LISP, ML, Modula, Pascal, Prolog, Smalltalk, Tcl, and about sixty other mostly obscure languages. He talks a lot about Pascal and ML as if they were recent cutting-edge... Read more
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars An inspiring book!, January 27, 2003
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Celso Luiz L. Rodrigues (Rio Grande , RS Brazil) - See all my reviews
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It is a book special to all that want to know interesting details about useful and "popular" languages like C, Pascal, etc, but also about that so called "classic"(on that concerns design) that are not so current, like Icon, CSP, going up to outsiders like Io. It is great for an undergraduate course on programming language topics (to show why things are not finished just in Computer Programming I) or even to stimulate graduate students to research in area. Perhaps not the best scientifically (Watt or Appel did better, yeat!), but is the best in motivation!
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