Download or read book The Study of Programming Languages written by Ryan D. Stansifer and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rigorous, thorough, and foundational, this text reveals the character of programming languages as a field of study and explores some interesting, important and conceptually more challenging topics. It includes an historical overview of language; presents the science of programming languages; and features many programming examples from Ada, Modula-3, and ML.