Programming Language Pragmatics

Thoroughly updated to reflect the most current developments in language design and implementation, the second edition
Addresses key developments in programming language design:
- Finalized C99 standard
- Java 5
- C SHARP 2.0
- Java concurrency package (JSR 166) and comparable mechanisms in C SHARP
- Java and C SHARP generics
Introduces and discusses scripting languages throughout the book and in an entire new chapter that covers:
- Application domains: shell languages, text processing and report generation, mathematics and statistics, 'glue' languages and general purpose scripting, extension languages, scripting the World Wide Web
- Design concepts: names and scopes, string and pattern manipulation, high level data types, object orientation
- Major languages: Perl, PHP, Tcl/Tk, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, XLST
Updates many sections and topics:
- iterators
- exceptions
- polymorphism
- templates/generics
- scope rules and declaration ordering
- separate compilation
- garbage collection
- threads and synchronization
New pedagogical features
Design & Implementation boxes
- Highlight the interplay between language design and language implementation
Test Your Understanding review questions
- Help students assess their understanding of key points of a section
In More Depth CD supplements
- Present more advanced or peripheral material for students who would like to extend their knowledge
Explorations
- Provide students with additional exercises that are open-ended, research-type activities
New reference features
- Over 900 numbered and titled examples help the student to quickly cross-reference and access content for initial study and later review.
- Indices (in the printed text) for both the Design and Implementation boxes and the numbered examples.
- CD search engine for both the printed text and the supplemental sections.
- Live links on the CD to Web-based language tutorials, reference manuals, and compilers and interpreters.
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