Programming Language Design Concepts

This book explains the concepts underlying programming languages, and demonstrates how these concepts are synthesized in the major paradigms: imperative, OO, concurrent, functional, logic and scripting.  It gives greatest prominence to the OO paradigm, and uses Java as the main exemplar language. <p>It includes numerous examples, case studies of several major programming languages, and numerous end-of-chapter exercises. Sample solutions to most of the exercises are provided at the book’s companion Web site</p>