Concepts of Programming Languages

20 Chapter 1 Preliminaries The “decode the instruction” step in the algorithm means the instruction is examined to determine wha ...

1.5 Language Categories 21 For data abstraction to be used effectively in software system design, it must be supported by the la ...

22 Chapter 1 Preliminaries extensions to an imperative language required to support object-oriented pro- gramming are not intens ...

1.7 Implementation Methods 23 special-purpose languages, primarily because of their narrow applicability and the difficulty of c ...

24 Chapter 1 Preliminaries a realization of a set of primitive operations, or machine instructions, such as those for arithmetic ...

1.7 Implementation Methods 25 implementation and has the advantage of very fast program execution, once the translation process ...

26 Chapter 1 Preliminaries Source program Lexical analyzer Syntax analyzer Intermediate code generator and semantic analyzer Opt ...

1.7 Implementation Methods 27 somewhat higher than an assembly language. The semantic analyzer is an inte- gral part of the inte ...

28 Chapter 1 Preliminaries 1.7.2 Pure Interpretation Pure interpretation lies at the opposite end (from compilation) of implemen ...

1.7 Implementation Methods 29 1.7.3 Hybrid Implementation Systems Some language implementation systems are a compromise between ...

30 Chapter 1 Preliminaries Perl is implemented with a hybrid system. Perl programs are partially com- piled to detect errors bef ...

Summary 31 1.8 Programming Environments A programming environment is the collection of tools used in the development of software ...

32 Chapter 1 Preliminaries Among the most important criteria for evaluating languages are readability, writability, reliability, ...

Problem Set 33 What is exception handling? Why is readability important to writability? How is the cost of compilers for a give ...

34 Chapter 1 Preliminaries What common programming language statement, in your opinion, is most detrimental to readability? Jav ...

35 2.1 Zuse’s Plankalkül 2.2 Pseudocodes 2.3 The IBM 704 and Fortran 2.4 Functional Programming: LISP 2.5 The First Step Toward ...

36 Chapter 2 Evolution of the Major Programming Languages T his chapter describes the development of a collection of programming ...

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38 Chapter 2 Evolution of the Major Programming Languages 2.1 Zuse’s Plankalkül The first programming language discussed in this ...

Zuse’s manuscript contained programs of far greater complexity than any written prior to 1945. Included were programs to sort ar ...