Dowek Gilles - Principles Of Programming Languages - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: We've known about algorithms for millennia but we've only been writing c - puter programs for a few decades. A big di? erence between the Euclidean or Eratosthenes age and ours is that since the middle of the twentieth century we express the algorithms we conceive using formal languages: programming languages. Computer scientists are not the only ones who use formal languages. - tometrists for example prescribe eyeglasses using very technical expressions ? ? such as " OD: - 1.25 (- 0.50) 180 OS: - 1.00 (- 0.25) 180 " in which the parent - ses are essential. Many such formal languages have been created throughout history: musical notation algebraic notation etc. In particular such languages have long been used to control machines such as looms and cathedral chimes. However until the appearance of programming languages those languages were only of limited importance: they were restricted to specialised ? elds with only a few specialists and written texts of those languages remained relatively scarce. This situation has changed with the appearance of programming l - guages which have a wider range of applications than the prescription of e - glassesorthecontrolofaloom areusedbylargecommunities andhaveallowed the creation of programs of many hundreds of thousands of lines.
Title: Principles Of Programming Languages
Author(s): Dowek Gilles
Publisher: Springer London Ltd
Barcode: 9781848820319
Pages: 159 Pages, Xii, 159 P.
Publication Date: 3/13/2009
Series: Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science
Category: Mathematical Theory Of Computation