Programming Languages: Design and Implementation

by Marvin V. Zelkowitz and Terrence W. Pratt

Book Overview

Exceptionally comprehensive in approach, this book explores the major issues in both design and implementation of modern programming languages and provides a basic introduction to the underlying... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0136780121
• ISBN13: 9780136780120
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 654 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.3" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Covers latest tech

Go for it. You can hardly find a similar book that covers many latest languages/tech.

What a programmer needs before programming languages

I should have written this review years ago except that Internet was not much of a thing when I first read Pratt's book. If I am where I am today as a developer with multiple language skills, it is thanks to Pratt. His approach to introducing languages to a developer is unique - first the concepts followed by how various languages implement the concepts. Wirth's "Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs" approaches the same subject but from a different angle. I like Pratt's approach. If you want to be in the developer community, this is what you should read BEFORE you lay your hands on any programming book.

Programming Languages: Design and Implementation

Very good book for the developer who wish to design a good solid software program.