Concepts of Programming Languages, Seventh Edition is a comprehensive introduction to programming language concepts. The book examines design and analysis issues using a wide variety of programming languages.

Highlights of the Seventh Edition:

· Additional coverage of program proofs using axiomatic semantics

· Additional material on recursive descent parsing

· New discussion of markup/programming hybird language, including XSLT and JSP

· Extensive coverage of the concepts and constructs of languages like C#, Java, Javascript, Perl, and PHP

· Discussion of functional programming, including Scheme and ML

· Discussion of logic programming, including Prolog

· Historical boxes and interviews with James Gosling, Larry Wall, Alan Cooper, Bjarne Stroustrup, and others who put the material in context

· Companion Website including quizzes and language references