PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE DESIGN CONCEPTS
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE DESIGN CONCEPTS
David A. Watt, University of Glasgow
with contributions by
William Findlay, University of Glasgow
Copyright ? 2004
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Contents
Preface
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Part I: Introduction
1 Programming languages 1.1 Programming linguistics 1.1.1 Concepts and paradigms 1.1.2 Syntax, semantics, and pragmatics1.1.3 Language processors 1.2 Historical development Summary Further reading Exercises
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Part II: Basic Concepts
2 Values and types 2.1 Types 2.2 Primitive types 2.2.1 Built-in primitive types 2.2.2 De?ned primitive types 2.2.3 Discrete primitive types 2.3 Composite types 2.3.1 Cartesian products, structures, and records 2.3.2 Mappings, arrays, and functions 2.3.3…
