Concepts of Programming Languages

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ISBN: 9780201385960 | 0201385961
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 8/1/1998

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This market leader now offers coverage of Java "TM" support for object-oriented programming, concurrency, and exception handling. It also features object-oriented programming more prominently throughout and provides expanded material on semantics. As in previous editions, Bob Sebesta describes fundamental concepts of programming languages by defining the design issues of the various language constructs, examining the design choices for these constructs in some of the most common languages, and critically comparing the design alternatives.

Chapter 1 Preliminaries

(36)

1.1 Reasons for Studying Concepts of Programming Languages

(3)

1.2 Programming Domains

(3)

1.3 Language Evaluation Criteria

(12)

1.4 Influences on Language Design

(3)

1.5 Language Categories

(1)

1.6 Language Design Trade-Offs

(1)

1.7 Implementation Methods

(6)

1.8 Programming Environments

(6)

Chapter 2 Evolution of the Major Programming Languages

(68)

2.1 Zuse's Plankalkul

(3)

2.2 Minimal Hardware Programming: Pseudocodes

(3)

2.3 The IBM 704 and FORTRAN

(5)

2.4 Functional Programming: LISP

(6)

2.5 The First Step Toward Sophistication: ALGOL 60

(6)

2.6 Computerizing Business Records: COBOL

(5)

2.7 The Beginnings of Timesharing: BASIC

(2)

2.8 Everything for Everybody: PL/I

(5)

2.9 Two Early Dynamic Languages: APL and SNOBOL

(1)

2.10 The Beginnings of Data Abstraction: SIMULA 67

(1)

2.11 Orthogonal Design: ALGOL 68

(2)

2.12 Some Important Descendants of the ALGOLs

(7)

2.13 Programming Based on Logic: Prolog

(1)

2.14 History's Largest Design Effort: Ada

(6)

2.15 Object-Oriented Programming: Smalltalk

(3)

2.16 Combining Imperative and Object-Oriented Features: C++

(3)

2.17 Programming the World Wide Web: Java

(8)

Chapter 3 Describing syntax and Semantics

105

(50)

3.1 Introduction

106

(1)

3.2 The General Problem of Describing Syntax

107

(2)

3.3 Formal Methods of Describing Syntax

109

(14)

3.4 Recursive Descent Parsing

123

(2)

3.5 Attribute Grammars

125

(7)

3.6 Describing the Meaning of Programs: Dynamic Semantics

132

(23)

Chapter 4 Names, Bindings, Type Checking, and Scopes

155

(40)

4.1 Introduction

156

(1)

4.2 Names

157

(2)

4.3 Variables

159

(3)

4.4 The Concept of Binding

162

(8)

4.5 Type Checking

170

(1)

4.6 Strong Typing

170

(2)

4.7 Type Compatibility

172

(3)

4.8 Scope

175

(8)

4.9 Scope and Lifetime

183

(1)

4.10 Referencing Environments

183

(2)

4.11 Named Constants

185

(2)

4.12 Variable Initialization

187

(8)

Chapter 5 Data Types

195

(64)

5.1 Introduction

196

(1)

5.2 Primitive Data Types

197

(4)

5.3 Character String Types

201

(5)

5.4 User-Defined Ordinal Types

206

(4)

5.5 Array Types

210

(13)

5.6 Associative Arrays

223

(1)

5.7 Record Types

224

(5)

5.8 Union Types

229

(6)

5.9 Set Types

235

(3)

5.10 Pointer Types

238

(21)

Chapter 6 Expression and the Assignment Statement

259

(28)

6.1 Introduction

260

(1)

6.2 Arithmetic Expressions

261

(8)

6.3 Overloaded Operators

269

(2)

6.4 Type Conversions

271

(3)

6.5 Relational and Boolean Expressions

274

(3)

6.6 Short-Circuit Evaluation

277

(1)

6.7 Assignment Statements

278

(5)

6.8 Mixed-Mode Assignment

283

(4)

Chapter 7 Statement-Level Control Structures

287

(42)

7.1 Introduction

288

(1)

7.2 Compound Statements

289

(1)

7.3 Selection Statements

290

(12)

7.4 Iterative Statements

302

(13)

7.5 Unconditional Branching

315

(3)

7.6 Guarded Commands

318

(4)

7.7 Conclusions

322

(7)

Chapter 8 Subprograms

329

(48)

8.1 Introduction

330

(1)

8.2 Fundamentals of Subprograms

330

(6)

8.3 Design Issues for Subprograms

336

(1)

8.4 Local Referencing Environment

337

(1)

8.5 Parameter-Passing Methods

338

(19)

8.6 Parameters That Are Subprogram Names

357

(2)

8.7 Overloaded Subprograms

359

(2)

8.8 Generic Subprograms

361

(4)

8.9 Separate and Independent Compilation

365

(1)

8.10 Design Issues for Functions

366

(1)

8.11 Accessing Nonlocal Environments

367

(3)

8.12 User-Defined Overloaded Operators

370

(1)

8.13 Coroutines

370

(7)

Chapter 9 Implementing Subprograms

377

(34)

9.1 The General Semantics of Calls and Returns

378

(1)

9.2 Implementing FORTRAN 77 Subprograms

379

(2)

9.3 Implementing Subprograms in ALGOL-like Languages

381

(18)

9.4 Blocks

399

(1)

9.5 Implementing Dynamic Scoping

400

(4)

9.6 Implementing Parameters That Are Subprogram Names

404

(7)

Chapter 10 Abstract Data Types

411

(24)

10.1 The Concept of Abstraction

412

(1)

10.2 Encapsulation

413

(1)

10.3 Introduction to Data Abstraction

414

(3)

10.4 Design Issues

417

(1)

10.5 Language Examples

418

(11)

10.6 Parameterized Abstract Data Types

429

(6)

Chapter 11 Support for Object-Oriented Programming

435

(54)

11.1 Introduction

436

(1)

11.2 Object-Oriented Programming

436

(5)

11.3 Design Issues for Object-Oriented Languages

441

(5)

11.4 Overview of Smalltalk

446

(1)

11.5 Introduction to the Smalltalk Language

447

(11)

11.6 Smalltalk Example Programs

458

(5)

11.7 Large-Scale Features of Smalltalk

463

(2)

11.8 Evaluation of Smalltalk

465

(1)

11.9 Support for Object-Oriented Programming in C++

466

(8)

11.10 Support for Object-Oriented Programming in Java

474

(2)

11.11 Support for Object-Oriented Programming in Ada 95

476

(4)

11.12 Support for Object-Oriented Programming in Eiffel

480

(3)

11.13 Implementation of Object-Oriented Constructs

483

(6)

Chapter 12 Concurrency

489

(44)

12.1 Introduction

490

(3)

12.3 Introduction to Subprogram-Level Concurrency

493

(5)

12.3 Semaphores

498

(5)

12.4 Monitors

503

(4)

12.5 Message Passing

507

(10)

12.6 Concurrency in Ada 95

517

(3)

12.7 Java Threads

520

(6)

12.8 Statement-Level Concurrency

526

(7)

Chapter 13 Exception Handling

533

(34)

13.1 Introduction to Exception Handling

534

(6)

13.2 Exception Handling in PL/I

540

(5)

13.3 Exception Handling in Ada

545

(6)

13.4 Exception Handling in C++

551

(4)

13.5 Exception Handling in Java

555

(12)

Chapter 14 Functional Programming Languages

567

(38)

14.1 Introduction

568

(1)

14.2 Mathematical Functions

569

(2)

14.3 Fundamentals of Functional Programming Languages

571

(2)

14.4 The First Functional Programming Language: LISP

573

(3)

14.5 An Introduction to Scheme

576

(15)

14.6 COMMON LISP

591

(2)

14.7 ML

593

(2)

14.8 Haskell

595

(3)

14.9 Applications of Functional Languages

598

(1)

14.10 A Comparison of Functional and Imperative Languages

599

(6)

Chapter 15 Logic Programming Languages

605

(36)

15.1 Introduction

606

(1)

15.2 A Brief Introduction to Predicate Calculus

606

(4)

15.3 Predicate Calculus and Proving Theorems

610

(2)

15.4 An Overview of Logic Programming

612

(2)

15.5 The Origins of Prolog

614

(1)

15.6 The Basic Elements of Prolog

614

(14)

15.7 Deficiencies of Prolog

628

(6)

15.8 Applications of Logic Programming

634

(2)

15.9 Conclusions

636

(5)

Bibliography

641

(12)

Index

653

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