Handbook of Programming Languages Volume 1: Object-Oriented Programming Languages

By Peter H. Salus

Object-Oriented Programming Languages, the first volume in the Handbook of Programming Languages series, is the largest of the four books in the set. The text comprehensively surveys the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1578700086
• ISBN13: 9781578700080
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: MacMillan Technical Publishing
• Length: 600 Pages
• Weight: 3.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.5" x 6.5" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Interesting collection of essays.

HPL : OOP Languages is an interesting collection of essays on OOP programming languages. That being said, its not surprising that each chapter is of varying quality and style. Some of the contributions are of very high quality and insightful; especially those by Stroustrup, Keonig (C++) and Meyer (Eiffel).This book is a collection of essays. Point. There is no particular theme nor direction; each essay is independent of the rest of the book. This book is neither a tutorial or a reference work. (although it tries to pass off as one) Its a mix of both.One common complaint about this book is that its views are biased and not objective in its survey of programming languages. However, we must remember that some of the articles are written by the inventors of the language itself so I don't think is possible for the inventor to be objective about his language. My complaint is that the section on Java is much too brief given its popularity. Also the chapter that introduces OOP is not particularly well written but it is a minor flaw as most the readers of this book are assumed to have a good understanding of OOP concepts.An interesting and sometimes insightful survery of object programming languages. If you want to sample some of the major OOP languages and how they came to be then this book is an enjoyable read. HPL : OOP is an excellent collection of essays on OOP languages. However, it cannot be considered a reference by any stretch of imagination.