Principles of Programming Languages

by Gilles Dowek

Book Overview

We've known about algorithms for millennia, but we've only been writing c- puter programs for a few decades. A big di?erence between the Euclidean or Eratosthenes age and ours is that since the middle of the twentieth century, we express the algorithms we conceive using formal languages: programming languages. Computer scientists are not the only ones who use formal languages. - tometrists, for example, prescribe eyeglasses using very technical expressions,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848820313
• ISBN13: 9781848820319
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 159 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.6" x 9.4"