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Author: Alice E. Fischer
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Published: 1993
Total Pages: 600
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive discussion of the components of programming languages which emphasises how a language is built. It covers core concepts including specification, objects, expressions, control and types with discussions of fundamentals, implementations strategies and related semantic issues.
Author: Robert Harper
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-04-04
Total Pages: 513
ISBN-13: 1107150302
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book unifies a broad range of programming language concepts under the framework of type systems and structural operational semantics.
Author: John Allen
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 474
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: M. Ben-Ari
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Published: 1996-03-26
Total Pages: 384
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book compares constructs from C with constructs from Ada in terms of levels of abstractions. Studying these languages provides a firm foundation for an extensive examination of object-oriented language support in C++ and Ada 95. It explains what alternatives are available to the language designer, how language constructs should be used in terms of safety and readability, how language constructs are implemented and which ones can be efficiently compiled and the role of language in expressing and enforcing abstractions. The final chapters introduce functional (ML) and logic (Prolog) programming languages to demonstrate that imperative languages are not conceptual necessities for programming.
Author: Alice E. Fischer
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Published: 1993
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ISBN-13: 9780130353610
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John E. Nicholls
Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 602
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduction: background and technical foundations; User aspects; Elements of procedural programming languages.
Author: Chartridge Books Oxford
Publisher: Chartridge Books Oxford
Published: 2013-10-01
Total Pages: 8
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Steven Roger Fischer
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2004-10-03
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 1861895941
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is tempting to take the tremendous rate of contemporary linguistic change for granted. What is required, in fact, is a radical reinterpretation of what language is. Steven Roger Fischer begins his book with an examination of the modes of communication used by dolphins, birds and primates as the first contexts in which the concept of "language" might be applied. As he charts the history of language from the times of Homo erectus, Neanderthal humans and Homo sapiens through to the nineteenth century, when the science of linguistics was developed, Fischer analyses the emergence of language as a science and its development as a written form. He considers the rise of pidgin, creole, jargon and slang, as well as the effects radio and television, propaganda, advertising and the media are having on language today. Looking to the future, he shows how electronic media will continue to reshape and re-invent the ways in which we communicate. "[a] delightful and unexpectedly accessible book ... a virtuoso tour of the linguistic world."—The Economist "... few who read this remarkable study will regard language in quite the same way again."—The Good Book Guide
Author: Steven Roger Fischer
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 2018-06-15
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 1780239467
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis second edition of Steven Roger Fischer’s fascinating book charts the history of communication from a time before human language was conceived of to the media explosion of the present day. Fischer begins by describing the modes of communication used by whales, birds, insects, and nonhuman primates, suggesting these are the first contexts in which the concept of “language” might be applied. He then moves from the early abilities of Homo erectus to the spread of languages worldwide, analyzing the effect of the development of writing along the way. With the advent of the science of linguistics in the nineteenth century, the nature of human languages first came to be studied and understood. Fischer follows the evolution of linguists’ insights and the relationship of language to social change into the mid-1900s. Taking into account the rise of pidgin, Creole, jargon, and slang, he goes on to raise provocative questions about literature’s—and literacy’s—relationship to language. Finally, touching on the effects of radio, television, propaganda, and advertising, Fischer looks to the future, asking how electronic media are daily reshaping the world’s languages and suggesting a radical reinterpretation of what language really is.
Author: James Pfrehm
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2018-01-25
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1472578341
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince the earliest days of our species, technology and language have evolved in parallel. This book examines the processes and products of this age-old relationship: a phenomenon we're calling technolingualism -- the mutually influential relationship between language and technology. One the one hand, as humans advance technology to master, control, and change the world around us, our language adapts. More sophisticated social-cultural practices give rise to new patterns of linguistic communication. Language changes in its vocabulary, structures, social conventions, and ideologies. Conversely-and this side of the story has been widely overlooked-the unique features of human language can influence a technology's physical forms and technical processes. Technolingualism explores the fascinating ways, past and present, by which language and technology have informed each other's development. The book reveals important corollaries about the universal nature of language and, most importantly, what it means to be human. From our first babbling noises to the ends of our lives, we are innately attuned to the technologies around us, and our language reflects this. We are, all of us, technolinguals.
