Programming Languages: Concepts and Implementation is a textbook on the fundamental principles of programming languages through a combination of concept-based and interpreter-based approaches. The book focuses on implementation and features conceptual and programming exercises that give students practical experience applying language theory and concepts.
The book also showcases the construction of a progressive series of language interpreters in Python that implements core language concepts such as scope, first-class functions, and parameter passing.
Other programming styles, including logic/declarative programming, and compelling language features, such as first-class continuations, are also discussed. Concepts are presented in Python, Scheme, JavaScript, Ruby, ML, Haskell, Prolog, and other programming languages.
This book is intended as a general-purpose textbook for a course on programming languages.
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