Programming Language Pragmatics addresses the fundamental principles at work in the most important contemporary languages, highlights the critical relationship between language design and language implementation, and devotes special attention to issues of importance to the expert programmer. Thanks to its rigorous but accessible teaching style, you’ll emerge better prepared to choose the best language for particular projects, to make more effective use of languages you already know, and to learn new languages quickly and completely.

1 Introduction
2 Programming language syntax
3 Names, scopes, and bindings
4 Semantic analysis
5 Target machine architecture
6 Control flow
7 Data types
8 Subroutines and control abstraction
9 Data abstraction and object orientation
10 Functional languages
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