Principles of Programming Languages: Design, Evaluation, and Implementation

By Bruce J. MacLennan

Completely revised and updated, the third edition of Principles of Programming Languages: Design, Evaluation, and Implementation teaches key design and implementation skills essential for language... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0030051630
• ISBN13: 9780030051630
• Release Date: June 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 3.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.6" x 1.1" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Still an excellent treatment of the Principles behind programming languages.

Today I needed to recommend a book that would treat the ideas and concepts behind good programming. I remembered in college that I had taken a languages course, I looked on my bookshelf, and found this text. I started to re-read it, and found that the ideas and concepts that are covered in this book are still relevant and well treated for today's computing landscape. I only have the 2nd edition so it does not have a treatment of C or C++, but the ideas that it conveyes are still the most important aspect of learning about computer languages. A language you know does not help you with designing good code, however concepts of computer languages will help you no matter what language you code. Inside the cover flap reads a list of principles that are covered throughout the book in each section. Some of them are: Abstraction, Automation, Infomation hiding, Orthogonality, Portability, etc. I would recommend this book to anyone who wanted to learn how to *design* quality software from the ground up. This book will not teach you a language, this book will teach you how to design good code.