Understanding Programming Languages

by Monti Ben-Ari

This book compares constructs from C with constructs from Ada in terms of levels of abstractions. Studying these languages provides a firm foundation for an extensive examination of object-oriented language support in C++ and Ada 95. It explains what alternatives are available to the language designer, how language constructs should be used in terms of safety and readability, how language constructs are implemented and which ones can be efficiently compiled and the role of language in expressing and enforcing abstractions. The final chapters introduce functional (ML) and logic (Prolog) programming languages to demonstrate that imperative languages are not conceptual necessities for programming.

Genres: Programming

376 pages, Paperback

First published March 26, 1996

Reviews

[Reader · Rating 1 out of 5]

Maybe okay for someone who is already a professional in the field, otherwise a horrible textbook to learn from. For whatever reason my school decided this was the book they would teach with. Pages are virtually intelligible to a beginner, going way to in depth way to quick. Awful and learned basically nothing this semester.

[Dmitry Kosintsev · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very informative but a bit hard to read. Also, focuses a lot on Ada and deals very little with non-imperative languages

[Tareef Mando · Rating 4 out of 5]

درسنا هذا الكتاب كجزء من مقرر لغات البرمجة المقارنة CS 4402
الكتاب مثقف والمقرر عموما كان تجربة غنية، لكنه يدخل أحيانا بتفاصيل دقيقة تضيع الهدف أو السياق.