This book provides students with a deep, working understanding
of the essential concepts of programming languages. Most of these
essentials relate to the semantics, or meaning, of program
elements, and the text uses interpreters (short programs that
directly analyze an abstract representation of the program text) to
express the semantics of many essential language elements in a way
that is both clear and executable. The approach is both analytical
and hands-on. The book provides views of programming languages
using widely varying levels of abstraction, maintaining a clear
connection between the high-level and low-level views. Exercises
are a vital part of the text and are scattered throughout; the text
explains the key concepts, and the exercises explore alternative
designs and other issues. The complete Scheme code for all the
interpreters and analyzers in the book can be found online through
The MIT Press Web site. For this new edition, each chapter has been
revised and many new exercises have been added. Significant
additions have been made to the text, including completely new
chapters on modules and continuation-passing style. Essentials of
Programming Languages can be used for both graduate and
undergraduate courses, and for continuing education courses for
programmers.Daniel P. Friedman is Professor of Computer Science at
Indiana University and is the author of many books published by The
MIT Press, including The Little Schemer (fourth edition, 1995), The
Seasoned Schemer (1995), A Little Java, A Few Patterns (1997), each
of these coauthored with Matthias Felleisen, and The Reasoned
Schemer (2005), coauthored with William E. Byrd and Oleg Kiselyov.
Mitchell Wand is Professor of Computer Science at Northeastern
University.
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