Understanding Programming Languages

by Cliff B. Jones

Book Overview

This book is about describing the meaning of programming languages. The author teaches the skill of writing semantic descriptions as an efficient way to understand the features of a language. While a compiler or an interpreter offers a form of formal description of a language, it is not something that can be used as a basis for reasoning about that language nor can it serve as a definition of a programming language itself since this must allow a range...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030592561
• ISBN13: 9783030592561
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 229 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"