the structures of programming languages and how programming languages are defined at the syntactic level; data types, strong versus weak checking; the relationship between language …

The goal of this course, then, is to stop taking programming languages for granted; to go deeper, from users of programming languages to understanding the design and implementation of …

02: Programming Languages COMP 524: Programming Language Concepts Assembly Code 4 Idea: use the computer to simplify programming! Possible since programs are data. Computer …

1. 1 Reasons for Studying Concepts of Programming Languages- CO1 x Increased ability to express ideas x Improved background for choosing appropriate languages

We take a look at some of these including imperative, procedural, object-oriented, logic, functional, and pure-functional programming. There are other dimensions in which languages …

a programming language: • Syntax: How do you write the various parts of the language? • Semantics: What do the various language features mean? For example, how are expressions …

Scala is a multi-paradigm language that combines functional and object-oriented pro-gramming. In this lecture, we discuss pattern matching, list processing functions, and com-pare the …

main features that characterize modern functional languages: higher-order functions, lazy evaluation, equations and pattern matching, strong static typing and type inference, and data …

What makes a language successful? Why do we have programming languages? What is a language for? Why study programming languages?

Plan of this course: pick out interesting programming-language concepts and major evolutionary trends. I. Introduction and motivation. II. The first procedural language: FORTRAN (1954–58). …