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Understanding Programming Languages by Cliff B. Jones is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Understanding Programming Languages about?

This book is about describing the meaning of programming languages. The author teaches the skill of writing semantic descriptions as an efficient way to understand the features of a language. While a compiler or an interpreter offers a form of formal description of a language, it is not something that can be used as a basis for reasoning about that language nor can it serve as a definition of a programming language itself since this must allow a range of implementations. By writing a formal semantics of a language a designer can yield a far shorter description and tease out, analyse and record design choices.   Early in the book the author introduces a simple notation, a meta-language, used to record descriptions of the semantics of languages. In a practical approach, he considers dozens of issues that arise in current programming languages and the key techniques that must be mastered in order to write the required formal semantic descriptions. The book concludes with a discussion of the eight key challenges: delimiting a language (concrete representation), delimiting the abstract content of a language, recording semantics (deterministic languages), operational semantics (non-deter

Who reads Understanding Programming Languages?

Author

Cliff B. Jones

Publisher

Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9783030592578

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Computer Science, Language Learning, Engineering