How Long to Read Understanding Programming Languages

How Long Does it Take to Read Understanding Programming Languages?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 57 minutes to read Understanding Programming Languages by Cliff B. Jones

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This book is about describing the meaning of programming languages. The author teaches the skill of writing semantic descriptions as an efficient way to understand the features of a language. While a compiler or an interpreter offers a form of formal description of a language, it is not something that can be used as a basis for reasoning about that language nor can it serve as a definition of a programming language itself since this must allow a range of implementations. By writing a formal semantics of a language a designer can yield a far shorter description and tease out, analyse and record design choices. Early in the book the author introduces a simple notation, a meta-language, used to record descriptions of the semantics of languages. In a practical approach, he considers dozens of issues that arise in current programming languages and the key techniques that must be mastered in order to write the required formal semantic descriptions. The book concludes with a discussion of the eight key challenges: delimiting a language (concrete representation), delimiting the abstract content of a language, recording semantics (deterministic languages), operational semantics (non-determinism), context dependency, modelling sharing, modelling concurrency, and modelling exits. The content is class-tested and suitable for final-year undergraduate and postgraduate courses. It is also suitable for any designer who wants to understand languages at a deep level. Most chapters offer projects, some of these quite advanced exercises that ask for complete descriptions of languages, and the book is supported throughout with pointers to further reading and resources. As a prerequisite the reader should know at least one imperative high-level language and have some knowledge of discrete mathematics notation for logic and set theory.

How long is Understanding Programming Languages?

Understanding Programming Languages by Cliff B. Jones is 229 pages long, and a total of 59,311 words.

This makes it 77% the length of the average book. It also has 72% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Understanding Programming Languages Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 24 minutes to read Understanding Programming Languages aloud.

What Reading Level is Understanding Programming Languages?

Understanding Programming Languages is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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