Explains the concepts underlying programming languages, and demonstrates how these concepts are synthesized in the major paradigms: imperative, OO, concurrent, functional, logic and with recent scripting languages. It gives greatest prominence to the OO paradigm.

• Includes numerous examples using C, Java and C++ as exmplar languages
• Additional case-study languages: Python, Haskell, Prolog and Ada
• Extensive end-of-chapter exercises with sample solutions on the companion Web site
• Deepens study by examining the motivation of programming languages not just their...

A unique, practical approach to working with collection classes in Java 2
Software developers new to Java will find the practical, software-engineering based approach taken by this book extremely refreshing. With an emphasis more on software design and less on theory, Java Collections explores in detail Java 2 collection classes, helping programmers choose the best collection classes for each application they work on. Watt and Brown explore abstract data types (ADTs) that turn up again and again in software design, using them to provide context for the data structures required for their...

These are the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Compiler Construction, CC 2000, held as part of ETAPS 2000 in Berlin, Germany in March/April 2000. The 18 revised full papers presented together with one invited paper were reviewed and selected from a total of 46 submissions. Among the topics covered are shape analysis, code optimization, Java virtual machine interpreters, stock allocation, loop processing, compiler optimization, run-time parallelization, automata implementation, partial evaluation and attribute evaluation.