Concepts of Programming Languages (7th Edition)

Concepts of Programming Languages describes the fundamental concepts of programming languages by presenting design issues, examining design choices, and critically comparing design alternatives without being language specific. This book is appropriate for anyone who wants to compare and contrast various programming languages.

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good service, good book
This book is useful to understand the basic of programming language and it is also a common textbook for most of university.
And the international delivery is so fast. I like this book as well as the service you provided.

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Excellent service
I bought the book for class. I am still reading it. Although some times it seems to drag on, it is excellent for learning about the basics of programming languages. The chapter about parsing seem to be a bit confusing at times. I had to re-read it few times to have a complete understanding; however, over all it seems an good resource.
I like more detailed graphs, tables and pictures in text books, which this book lacks.

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OMFG
I'm currently a CS student and was assigned this book as apart of my Organizational Programming Language class. All I can say is WOW.

Key concepts and ideas are mentioned sometimes or not explained very well.

EX. Problem 5, Chapter 6, P. 307
`What disadvantages are there in implicit dereferencing of pointers but only in certain contexts? For example consider the implicit dereference of a pointer to a record in Ada when it is used to reference a record field.`

EX. About Pointer Operations, P. 292:
`,,.,the pointer could also be interpreted as a reference to the value in the memory cell pointed to by the memory cell to which the pointer variable is bound.`

This is how the book explains pointer dereferencing; thats it.

What the hell?! Also, some powerpoint slides are,,.wrong. like with:

-count++; // Book says count will be negated after being incremented.
// Also says it can be used in C based languages but this does not
// even compile in Java

i = count++;
vs.
i = ++count;

The slides also say that the execution of either of these statements will result in 'i' being the same value.

Don't use this book.

Please.

~Mowgef

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Solid Overview
I bought this for a programming languages concepts class and this book definitely has some very solid principles and concepts that everyone should know about programming languages. I would recommend this if someone is looking into what really makes up a programming language and a deeper look at theory over trial.

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8th Edition? Get Real! It's Still Garbage!
The fact that this dreadful, outdated, poorly written textbook is in it's 8th edition is proof of the graft and corruption in the text book industry. This books focus on outdated technology and sparse, unsatisfactory coverage of functional and concurrent languages makes it suitable for only the most basic course on languages. For such a course the previous 7 editions of this book would be more than adequate.

Instructors: Say NO to requiring the most recent edition! Say NO to support corrupt business practices of textbook publishers who exploit students and their families!