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Essentials of Programming Languages, 3rd Edition

By Daniel P. Friedman , Mitchell Wand

Book information

Publisher
The MIT Press
Year
2008
ISBN
0262062798, 9780262062794, 9781435647596
LCC
QA76.7 .F73 2008
Open Library ID
OL10236995M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3571386 bytes)
Edition
3
Pages
433\433
Scanned
no
Time added
2010-10-03 22:52:24

Description

For several years I've taught an advanced undergraduate programming language course using the second edition of this book. Now I think I see why it's priced at $60, and the third edition is only $44. The third edition loses the simplicity and elegance of the second, replacing it with unnecessary abstraction and complexity (expressed versus denoted values), and treating the fun, hands-on part (implementation in Scheme) almost as an afterthought.If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

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