Book details of 'Programming Languages: Concepts and Constructs, Second Edition'

Title	Programming Languages: Concepts and Constructs, Second Edition
Author(s)	Ravi Sethi
ISBN	0201590654
Language	English
Published	February 1996
Publisher	Addison-Wesley Pub Co

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Reviewer Rob Slade wrote:
Intended as a textbook for a course on the idea of, and behind, high-level programming languages, this work first looks at the role of such languages, and the means of describing them. The author then looks at the three major "paradigms" of programming: imperative, object-oriented, and functional. Logic and concurrent programming are given some space, followed by semantic methods, lambda calculus and a brief overview of some current languages. The style of the book is highly academic. This is not necessarily a failing in a textbook, but it is coupled with singularly awkward explanations. Object- orientation seems to be no more than a particularly modular form of a procedural language while functional programming appears only to be especially suited to recursion. An introduction to the concepts is there, but full understanding requires research into the (admittedly excellent) bibliography. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1996
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