This page describes the first edition of my text, now in its second edition. It is suitable for an advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate course in the principles of programming languages. It is organized around principles and paradigms, rather than individual languages. Principles are reinforced with numerous examples from contemporary languages. There are individual chapters on functional, object-oriented, and logic languages, as well as history, design principles, parallel programming, and formal semantics.
If you would like a more detailed description of the book, please feel free to consult the
An errata list is available for each printing as follows (you can determine which printing you have from the lowest number on the bottom left of the copyright page):
(If you have the first printing, you will need both the first printing errata and the second printing errata.)
If you have additional errata that are not in these lists,
please email me a correction:
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