Programming Language Choice
Practice and Experience
Published on 4. April 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
400 pages
978-1-85032-186-6 (ISBN)
Description
When faced with a particular task, how does one choose the most suitable programming language? This reader identifies the criteria and techniques for judging suitability of languages not on theoretical grounds but by looking at the pragmatic reasons for a particular language choice. With descriptions of industrial and academic experience of the use of established languages like FORTRAN-90, Ada, C and C++ and new languages like CooL and Omega, this book should be os use to anyone interested in comparative programming languages and the impact that the choice of language has in practice.
When faced with a particular task, how does one choose the most suitable programming language? This reader identifies the criteria and techniques for judging suitability of languages not on theoretical grounds but by looking at the pragmatic reasons for a particular language choice. With descriptions of industrial and academic experience of the use of established languages like FORTRAN-90, Ada, C and C++ and new languages like CooL and Omega, this book should be os use to anyone interested in comparative programming languages and the impact that the choice of language has in practice.
When faced with a particular task, how does one choose the most suitable programming language? This reader identifies the criteria and techniques for judging suitability of languages not on theoretical grounds but by looking at the pragmatic reasons for a particular language choice. With descriptions of industrial and academic experience of the use of established languages like FORTRAN-90, Ada, C and C++ and new languages like CooL and Omega, this book should be os use to anyone interested in comparative programming languages and the impact that the choice of language has in practice.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-85032-186-6 (9781850321866)
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Content
Initial programming language choice - a review of the factors, J. Traxler; Programming languages in industry and commerce. J. Souter; Programming paradigms and culture - implications for teaching, M. Petrie; Programming languages - a history and classification. H. Klaeren; The use of C in the US computing industry - C++ as an initial teaching programming language, P. Lee and R.J. Stroud; Why Ada is for you, B. Wichmann; Modula-2 as the first programming language - five years experience, S. Cater; From ML to C via Modula-3, P. Robinson; Extended Pascal, D. Joslin; Rationale behind choosing Oberon for programming education at ETH Zurich, J. Templ; The impact of Fortran-90 - Using the Turing language across the curriculum, R. Holt, S. Mancoridis and D. Penny; Smalltalk in European banking, B. Shearing; Eiffel - A pure OO language for teaching, R. Weedon; Pride and prejudice - four decades of Lisp, S. Watt; CooL (Combined object-oriented language) - an overview, M. Weber; Omega, G. Blaschek; The role of documentation in software engineering education, J. Sametinger; Tools for processing programs, M. Hennel; Standardization and language proliferation, B. Meek; Teaching programming and programming languages, D. Andrews; VDM-SL as a prelude to a language, K. Pronk and P G Kluit; Programming language choice for distance computing, M. Woodman and Rob Griffiths; Discourses on programming principles, H. Robinson.