Programming Language Concepts

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• Seanny123 · Jul 9, 2018 · Recommends

  I tried using this book to learn functional programming and Haskell. It didn't work for me, due to the learning curve and topic progression. I recommend instead reading "Programming Language Concepts" by Sestoft. It's F#, but it helped me understand the Haskell bits of this tutorial much better.

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• fsloth · Feb 4, 2015 · Recommends

  …F#" a good reference book on writing general stuff in the .Net ecosystem with F#, Petricek's "Real-World Functional Programming" a very good introduction to various application patterns and Sestoft's "Programming Language Concepts" a great book and online reference on writing interpreters and compilers (http://www.itu.dk/people/sestoft/plc/). *At work I use C++ on MS stack.

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• cygwin98 · Apr 22, 2011 · Recommends

  …generous to give it out for free, that's why I think it needs more exposure. It's heavy on the compiler theory part, so I mainly use it as a reference book. It also has a "companion" book (my take) -- Programming Language Concepts for Software Developers [1] by Peter Sestoft. The PLCSD book, also free, is more on hand-on projects, where you can implement a Micro-C compiler. [1] http://www.itu.dk/courses/BPRD/E2010/plcsd-0_50.pdf

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• mavelikara · Aug 27, 2011 · Recommends

  I found Peter Sestoft's "Programming Language Concepts for Software Developers" an enjoyable read. The book incrementally builds two compilers - one for Micro-ML and one for Micro-C. The implementation language is F#. http://www.itu.dk/courses/BPRD/E2010/plcsd-0_50.pdf http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/martinesmann/Teaching-program...

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• fsloth · Sep 7, 2018 · Recommends

  …contains lots of non-trivial code to type in and try out yourself. Don Syme designed F# as a no-nonsense industrial language and this book is a great introduction from that point of view. Then there is "Programming language Concepts" by Sestoft - which, while being a language book, at the same time exposes lot of beautiful patterns how to exactly use F# for data munching. Then, thirdly, Jon Harrop's "F# for scientist" is a great…

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• jarcane · Mar 31, 2016 · Mentions

  I have been working slowly through Sestoft's Programming Language Concepts, and through that I wrote a tiny interpreter in F# of a mini Forth-like language: http://ideone.com/24I5y0 Inspired by this though, I decided I'd try re-writing it into a compiler for it instead, targeting…

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