Concepts in Programming Languages
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                                     Alan Mycroft
                                Computer Laboratory
                               University of Cambridge
                              2014–2015(Easter Term)
          http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/1415/ConceptsPL/
          aNotes largely due to Marcelo Fiore—but errors are my responsibility.
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                           Practicalities
        Course web page:
             www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/1415/ConceptsPL/
          with lecture slides, exercise sheet, and reading material.
        Oneexamquestion.
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                            Main books
        J.C.Mitchell. Concepts in programming languages.
          Cambridge University Press, 2003.
        T.W.Pratt and M.V.Zelkowitz. Programming Languages:
          Design and implementation (3RD EDITION). Prentice Hall,
          1999.
        ⋆ M.L.Scott. Programming language pragmatics
          (2ND EDITION). Elsevier, 2006.
        R.Harper. Practical Foundations for Programming
          Languages. Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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                               Context :
       so many programming languages
      Peter J. Landin: “The Next 700 Programming Languages”,
      CACM>>>>1966<<<<.
      Someprogramming-language‘family trees’ (too big for slide):
      http://www.oreilly.com/go/languageposter
      http://www.levenez.com/lang/
      http://rigaux.org/language-study/diagram.html
      http://www.rackspace.com/blog/
      infographic-evolution-of-computer-languages/
      Plan of this course: pick out interesting programming-
      language concepts and major evolutionary trends.
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