Understanding Programming Languages provides A comprehensive look at the design elements of programming languages. It will enable the developers, managers and architects to compre programming languages using the listed design elements to decide which language is the best suited to the solution being developed. It covers over 75 elements of programming languages. From imperative, functional, concurrent, domain-specific & multi-paradigm languages, type systems, continuations, currying, partial application, lambda expressions, turing completeness, virtual machine comparisons to name just a dozen...

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