Programming languages: Principles and paradigms (Q1049892)

This book provides a detailed description of the main principles behind the design and implementation of modern programming languages. It is not focused on a specific language, it identifies the most important principles shared by large classes of languages. A detailed description of the main programming paradigms, namely imperative, object-oriented, functional and logic, are given, analysed in depth and compared. Additionally, in the first two chapters the basic notions of syntax, semantics and computability are introduced. Primarily, the text is intended as a university textbook, but is also suitable for personal study of professionals who wish to deepen their knowledge of the mechanisms that lie behind the languages they use.