Programming Language Pragmatics
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Michael L. Scott is a professor and past Chair of the Computer Science Department at the University of Rochester. He is best known for work on synchronization and concurrent data structures: algorithms from his group appear in a wide variety of commercial and open-source systems. A Fellow of the ACM and the IEEE, he shared the 2006 Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing. In 2001 he received the University's Robert and Pamela Goergen Award for Distinguished Achievement and Artistry in Undergraduate Teaching.
Content
I. Foundations
1. Introduction
2. Programming Language Syntax
3. Names, Scopes, Bindings
4. Semantic Analysis
5. Target Machine Architecture
II. Core Issues in Language Design
6. Control Flow
7. Data Types
8. Composite Types
9. Subroutines and Control Abstraction
10. Data Abstraction and Object Orientation
III. Alternative Programming Models
11. Functional Languages
12. Logic Languages
13. Concurrency
14. Scripting Languages
IV. A Closer Look at Implementation
15. Building a Runnable Program
16. Run-time Program Management
17. Code Improvement