Advanced programming language design
by Raphael A. Finkel · first published 1996
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…yourself to dig deeper. But once you do this, you will begin to look at programming languages in a whole different light. I found the following useful to get back (ongoing) my "joy of programming"; 1) Advanced Programming Language Design by Raphael Finkel. 2) Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming by Peter Van Roy and Seif Haridi. 3) Understanding Formal Methods by Jean-Francois Monin. 4) Design Concepts in Programming…
on “The Programmer's Brain (2021)” ↗…language should be like. Obviously this is not a bad thing but folks need to be aware of history and how they got to where they are now. Rustaceans would do well to read something like Raphael Finkel's book Advanced Programming Language Design where a whole bunch of languages and their unique features are shown/compared.
on “The state of Rust trying to catch up with Ada [video]” ↗…Meanwhile C/C++ have been quietly adding in wisdom from lessons learned in the trenches and have gotten much better. Next time a rustacean starts jumping up and down, show them Raphael Finkel's book Advanced Programming Language Design so that they can understand there is nothing new under the sun.
on “The state of Rust trying to catch up with Ada [video]” ↗…introduction to different languages (both from Industry and Academia) from different programming paradigms (i.e. Imperative/OO/Functional/Dataflow/Concurrent/Declarative/Logic/Aggregate) see Raphael Finkel's Advanced Programming Language Design.
on “Forty-Four Esolangs: The Art of Esoteric Code” ↗Folks might find the following useful for studying PLs; 1) Advanced Programming Language Design by Raphael Finkel - A classic (late 90s) book comparing a whole smorgasbord of languages. 2) Design Concepts in Programming Languages by Franklyn Turbak et al. - A comprehensive (and big) book on PL…
on “The seven programming ur-languages” ↗…Mathematics" to good effect. Eventually, pick up some good textbooks on programming language design (not parsing and compilation), like Turbak et al's "Design Concepts in Programming Languages" and Finkel's "Advanced Programming Language Design." Also, a few more sitting on my bookshelf that I also highly recommend -- "Computer Organization and Design," "Operating System Concepts" (the famous "Dinosaur book"), and (if you want to get into the…
on “Book recommendation to learn basics of Comp Sci?” ↗…languages in the Lisp family, using a different definition from the original homoiconic, and it might have been introduced by outsiders. Using Google Books search, we can identify that a 1996 book called Advanced Programming Language Design by Raphael A. Finkel uses the word in this new way, claiming that TCL and Lisp are homoiconic. The word returns to flatlining towards the end of the 1990s, and then surges after 2000.
on “Bicameral, Not Homoiconic” ↗