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Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Preliminaries 1

1.1 Reasons for Studying Concepts of Programming Languages ...............2

1.2 Programming Domains .....................................................................5

1.3 Language Evaluation Criteria ............................................................7

1.4 Influences on Language Design .......................................................19

1.5 Language Categories .......................................................................22

1.6 Language Design Trade-Offs ............................................................24

1.7 Implementation Methods ................................................................25

1.8 Programming Environments ............................................................32

Summary • Review Questions • Problem Set .............................................33

 

Chapter 2 Evolution of the Major Programming Languages 37

2.1 Zuse’s Plankalkül ...........................................................................38

2.2 Minimal Hardware Programming: Pseudocodes ...............................41

2.3 The IBM 704 and Fortran ..............................................................44

2.4 Functional Programming: LISP ......................................................49

2.5 The First Step Toward Sophistication: ALGOL 60 ............................54

2.6 Computerizing Business Records: COBOL ........................................60

2.7 The Beginnings of Timesharing: BASIC ............................................65

Interview: ALAN COOPER–User Design and Language Design..................68

2.8 Everything for Everybody: PL/I .......................................................70

2.9 Two Early Dynamic Languages: APL and SNOBOL .........................73

2.10 The Beginnings of Data Abstraction: SIMULA 67 ............................74

2.11 Orthogonal Design: ALGOL 68 ........................................................75

2.12 Some Early Descendants of the ALGOLs ......................................... 77

2.13 Programming Based on Logic: Prolog ............................................. 81

2.14 History’s Largest Design Effort: Ada .............................................. 83

2.15 Object-Oriented Programming: Smalltalk ........................................ 87

2.16 Combining Imperative and Object-Oriented Features: C++ ................ 90

2.17 An Imperative-Based Object-Oriented Language: Java ...................... 93

2.18 Scripting Languages ....................................................................... 97

2.19 A C-Based Language for the New Millennium: C# ......................... 103

2.20 Markup/Programming Hybrid Languages ....................................... 106

Summary • Bibliographic Notes • Review Questions • Problem Set • Programming Exercises..... 108

 

Chapter 3 Describing Syntax and Semantics 115

3.1 Introduction ................................................................................. 116

3.2 The General Problem of Describing Syntax .................................... 117

3.3 Formal Methods of Describing Syntax ........................................... 119

3.4 Attribute Grammars ..................................................................... 134

History Note......................................................................................... 135

3.5 Describing the Meanings of Programs: Dynamic Semantics ............ 141

History Note........................................................................................ 156

Summary • Bibliographic Notes • Review Questions • Problem Set ...........163

 

Chapter 4 Lexical and Syntax Analysis 171

4.1 Introduction ................................................................................. 172

4.2 Lexical Analysis ........................................................................... 173

4.3 The Parsing Problem .................................................................... 182

4.4 Recursive-Descent Parsing ............................................................ 185

4.5 Bottom-Up Parsing ...................................................................... 194

Summary • Review Questions • Problem Set • Programming Exercises......202

 

Chapter 5 Names, Bindings, and Scopes 207

5.1 Introduction ................................................................................. 208

5.2 Names ......................................................................................... 208

History Note.........................................................................................209

History Note.........................................................................................210

5.3 Variables ......................................................................................211

History Note.........................................................................................212

5.4 The Concept of Binding .................................................................214

Interview: RASMUS LERDORF–Scripting Languages and Other Examples of Slick Solutions .......218

5.5 Scope ...........................................................................................225

History Note.........................................................................................227

5.6 Scope and Lifetime .......................................................................234

5.7 Referencing Environments .............................................................235

5.8 Named Constants ........................................................................237

Summary • Review Questions • Problem Set • Programming Exercises ... 239

 

Chapter 6 Data Types 247

6.1 Introduction .................................................................................248

6.2 Primitive Data Types .....................................................................250

6.3 Character String Types ..................................................................254

History Note.........................................................................................255

6.4 User-Defined Ordinal Types ............................................................259

6.5 Array Types ..................................................................................263

History Note.........................................................................................264

History Note.........................................................................................267

6.6 Associative Arrays ........................................................................277

Interview: ROBERTO IERUSALIMSCHY–Lua ................................280

6.7 Record Types ................................................................................282

6.8 Union Types ..................................................................................287

6.9 Pointer and Reference Types ..........................................................291

History Note.........................................................................................294

6.10 Type Checking ..............................................................................304

6.11 Strong Typing ...............................................................................305

6.12 Type Equivalence ..........................................................................306

6.13 Theory and Data Types .................................................................. 310

Summary • Bibliographic Notes • Review Questions • Problem Set • Programming Exercises ......312

 

Chapter 7 Expressions and Assignment Statements 319

7.1 Introduction ................................................................................. 320

7.2 Arithmetic Expressions ................................................................. 321

7.3 Overloaded Operators ................................................................... 330

7.4 Type Conversions .......................................................................... 331

History Note......................................................................................... 334

7.5 Relational and Boolean Expressions .............................................. 335

History Note......................................................................................... 335

7.6 Short-Circuit Evaluation .............................................................. 337

7.7 Assignment Statements ................................................................ 339

History Note......................................................................................... 343

7.8 Mixed-Mode Assignment .............................................................. 343

Summary • Review Questions • Problem Set • Programming Exercises .... 344

 

Chapter 8 Statement-Level Control Structures 349

8.1 Introduction ................................................................................. 350

8.2 Selection Statements .................................................................... 352

History Note......................................................................................... 352

History Note......................................................................................... 354

8.3 Iterative Statements ..................................................................... 365

History Note......................................................................................... 365

Interview: LARRY WALL–Part 1: Linguistics and the Birth of Perl ........ 370

History Note......................................................................................... 378

8.4 Unconditional Branching .............................................................. 380

8.5 Guarded Commands ..................................................................... 381

8.6 Conclusions .................................................................................. 383

Summary • Review Questions • Problem Set • Programming Exercises..... 384

 

Chapter 9 Subprograms 391

9.1 Introduction .................................................................................392

9.2 Fundamentals of Subprograms ......................................................392

9.3 Design Issues for Subprograms .....................................................403

9.4 Local Referencing Environments ...................................................404

9.5 Parameter-Passing Methods .........................................................406

Interview: LARRY WALL–Part 2: Scripting Languages in General and Perl in Particular ........408

History Note.........................................................................................416

History Note.........................................................................................416

History Note.........................................................................................420

9.6 Parameters That Are Subprograms ................................................427

History Note.........................................................................................429

9.7 Overloaded Subprograms ..............................................................429

9.8 Generic Subprograms ...................................................................431

9.9 Design Issues for Functions ...........................................................438

9.10 User-Defined Overloaded Operators ...............................................439

9.11 Coroutines ....................................................................................440

History Note.........................................................................................440

Summary • Review Questions • Problem Set • Programming Exercises .....442

 

Chapter 10 Implementing Subprograms 449

10.1 The General Semantics of Calls and Returns .................................450

10.2 Implementing “Simple” Subprograms ..........................................451

10.3 Implementing Subprograms with Stack-Dynamic Local Variables ...............453

10.4 Nested Subprograms ...................................................................462

Interview: NIKLAUS WIRTH–Keeping It Simple ............................464

10.5 Blocks ........................................................................................470

10.6 Implementing Dynamic Scoping ...................................................472

Summary • Review Questions • Problem Set • Programming Exercises ....475

 

Chapter 11 Abstract Data Types and Encapsulation Constructs 481

11.1 The Concept of Abstraction ......................................................... 482

11.2 Introduction to Data Abstraction ................................................. 483

11.3 Design Issues for Abstract Data Types .......................................... 486

11.4 Language Examples .................................................................... 487

Interview: BJARNE STROUSTRUP–C++: Its Birth, Its Ubiquitousness, and Common Criticisms ....... 490

11.5 Parameterized Abstract Data Types .............................................. 504

11.6 Encapsulation Constructs ............................................................ 508

11.7 Naming Encapsulations ............................................................... 512

Summary • Review Questions • Problem Set • Programming Exercises .... 517

 

Chapter 12 Support for Object-Oriented Programming 523

12.1 Introduction ................................................................................ 524

12.2 Object-Oriented Programming ...................................................... 524

12.3 Design Issues for Object-Oriented Languages ................................ 527

12.4 Support for Object-Oriented Programming in Smalltalk ................ 532

12.5 Support for Object-Oriented Programming in C++ ........................ 535

Interview: BJARNE STROUSTRUP–On Paradigms and Better Programming ........ 536

12.6 Support for Object-Oriented Programming in Java ........................ 546

12.7 Support for Object-Oriented Programming in C# .......................... 550

12.8 Support for Object-Oriented Programming in Ada 95 .................... 552

12.9 Support for Object-Oriented Programming in Ruby........................ 557

12.10 Implementation of Object-Oriented Constructs .............................. 560

Summary • Review Questions • Problem Set • Programming Exercises..... 564

 

Chapter 13 Concurrency 569

13.1 Introduction ................................................................................ 570

13.2 Introduction to Subprogram-Level Concurrency ............................ 574

History Note ....................................................................................... 577

13.3 Semaphores ................................................................................ 578

13.4 Monitors .....................................................................................583

13.5 Message Passing .........................................................................585

13.6 Ada Support for Concurrency .......................................................587

13.7 Java Threads ...............................................................................598

13.8 C# Threads ..................................................................................606

13.9 Statement-Level Concurrency ......................................................608

Summary • Bibliographic Notes • Review Questions • Problem Set • Programming Exercises .....610

 

Chapter 14 Exception Handling and Event Handling 615

14.1 Introduction to Exception Handling ..............................................616

History Note........................................................................................620

14.2 Exception Handling in Ada ..........................................................622

14.3 Exception Handling in C++ ..........................................................629

14.4 Exception Handling in Java ..........................................................634

Interview: JAMES GOSLING–The Birth of Java .............................636

14.5 Introduction to Event Handling ....................................................643

14.6 Event Handling with Java ............................................................644

Summary • Bibliographic Notes • Review Questions • Problem Set • Programming Exercises ..... 650

 

Chapter 15 Functional Programming Languages 655

15.1 Introduction ................................................................................656

15.2 Mathematical Functions ..............................................................657

15.3 Fundamentals of Functional Programming Languages ..................659

15.4 The First Functional Programming Language: LISP .....................661

15.5 An Introduction to Scheme ..........................................................664

15.6 COMMON LISP ..........................................................................682

15.7 ML .............................................................................................682

15.8 Haskell .......................................................................................686

15.9 Applications of Functional Languages ..........................................691

15.10 A Comparison of Functional and Imperative Languages ................692

Summary • Bibliographic Notes • Review Questions • Problem Set • Programming Exercises ....694

 

Chapter 16 Logic Programming Languages 701

16.1 Introduction ................................................................................ 702

16.2 A Brief Introduction to Predicate Calculus ................................... 702

16.3 Predicate Calculus and Proving Theorems .................................... 706

16.4 An Overview of Logic Programming ............................................. 708

16.5 The Origins of Prolog .................................................................. 710

16.6 The Basic Elements of Prolog ...................................................... 711

16.7 Deficiencies of Prolog .................................................................. 725

16.8 Applications of Logic Programming ............................................ 731

Summary • Bibliographic Notes • Review Questions • Problem Set • Programming Exercises.... 733

Bibliography ...............................................................................737

Index ..........................................................................................747

About the Author

Robert Sebesta is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. Professor Sebesta received a BS in applied mathematics from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and MS and PhD degrees in computer science from the Pennsylvania State University. His professional interests are the design and evaluation of programming languages, compiler design, and software testing methods and tools. He is the author of Addison-Wesley’s Concepts of Programming Languages and Programming the World Wide Web.

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