Principles of Programming Languages: Design, Evaluation, and Implementation
Bruce James MacLennan · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 1995
PREFACE Concept Directory I. History, Motivation, and Evaulation II. Design and Implementation III. Principles IV. Implementation INTRODUCTION 1. The Beginning: Pseudo-Code Interpreters 1.1 History and Motivation 1.2 Design of a Pseudo-Code 1.3 Implementation 1.4 Phenomenology of Programming Languages 2. Emphasis on Efficiency: FORTRAN 2.1 History and Motivation 2.2 Design: Structural Organization 2.3 Design: Control Structures 2.4 Design: Data Structures 2.5 Design: Name Structures 2.6 Design: Syntactic Structures 2.7 Evaluation and Epilog 3. Generality and Hierarchy: ALGOL-60 3.1 History and Motivation 3.2 Design: Structural Organization 3.3 Design: Name Structures 3.4 Design: Data Structures 3.5 Design: Control Structures 4. Syntax and Elegance: ALGOL-40 4.1 Design: Syntactic Structures 4.2 Descriptive Tools: BNF 4.3 Design: Elegance 4.4 Evaluation and Epilog 5. Return to Simplicity: PASCAL 5.1 History and Motivation 5.2 Design: Structural Organization 5.3 Design: Data Structures 5.4 Design: Name Structures 5.5 Design: Control Structures 5.6 Evaluation and Epilog 6. Implementation of Block Structured Languages 6.1 Activation Records and Context 6.2 Procedure Call and Return 6.3 Display Method 6.4 Blocks 6.5 Summary 7. Modularity and Data Abstraction: ADA 7.1 History and Motivation 7.2 Design: Structural Organization 7.3 Design Data Structures and Typing 7.4 Design: Name Structures 8. Procedures and Concurrency: ADA 8.1 Design: Control Structures 8.2 Design: Syntactic Structures 8.3 Evaluation and Epilog 9. List Processing: LISP 9.1 History and Motivation 9.2 Design: Structural Organization 9.3 Design: Data Structures 10. Functional Processing: LISP 10.1 Design: Control Structures 10.2 Design: Name Structures 10.3 Design: Syntactic Structures 11. Implementation of Recursive List-Processors: LISP 11.1 Recursive Interpreters 11.2 Storage Reclamation 11.3 Evaluation and Epilog 12. Object-Oriented Programming: SmallTalk 12.1 History and Motivation 12.2 Design: Structural Organization 12.3 Design: Classes and Subclasses 12.4 Design: Objects and Message Sending 12.5 Implementation: Classes and Objects 12.6 Design: Object-Oriented Extensions 12.7 Evaluation and Epilog 13. Logic Programming: Prolog 13.1 History and Motivation 13.2 Design: Structural Organization 13.3 Design: Data Structures 13.4 Design: Control Structures 13.5 Evaluation and Epilog 14. Principles of Language Desing 14.1 General Remarks 14.2 Principles BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX