Programming Language Explorations - Toal, Ray; Rivera, Rachel; Schneider, Alexander
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The book is a programming languages textbook disguised as a tour of modern programming languages. As readers move through each language, they will encounter numerous examples introducing its key features. The book explains why each feature is in the language, pointing out (1) how it improves upon similar features in previous (and related) languages, and (2) how it is an instance of a more general concept. The book is not organized around the concepts; rather, the language-independent concepts are introduced as needed. An appendix lists and organizes each concept, in outline or glossary form, together with a mind map figure.…mehr

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The book is a programming languages textbook disguised as a tour of modern programming languages. As readers move through each language, they will encounter numerous examples introducing its key features. The book explains why each feature is in the language, pointing out (1) how it improves upon similar features in previous (and related) languages, and (2) how it is an instance of a more general concept. The book is not organized around the concepts; rather, the language-independent concepts are introduced as needed. An appendix lists and organizes each concept, in outline or glossary form, together with a mind map figure.
Autorenporträt
Ray Toal is Professor of Computer Science at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles where he has been teaching since 1986. He received his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1993 in semantics, with minors in theoretical computer science and database systems. His current research interests are in programming language design, compilers, APIs, and large scale infrastructure. He has consulted for a number of companies in the Los Angeles area, including Citysearch/CityGrid, Medaxis, Friendbuy, Handmade Mobile, M-GO, and Criteo. Ray has authored three books on programming languages and has been involved with projects at the Human Advancement Research Community (HARC).