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This book explains the concepts underlying programming languages, and demonstrates how these concepts are synthesized in the major paradigms: imperative, OO, concurrent, functional, logic and scripting. It gives greatest prominence to the OO paradigm, and uses Java as the main exemplar language. It includes numerous examples, case studies of several major programming languages, and numerous end-of-chapter exercises. Special Feature Timely reappraisal of language paradigms with focus on OO Java, C and C++ used as exemplar languages Additional case-study languages: Python, Haskell, Prolog and Ada Deepens study by examining the motivation of programming languages not just their features Written in an approachable style with none of the waffle that characterizes much of the literature in this area About the Author David Watt is a Professor of Computing Science at Glasgow University. His research interests include the design, specification, and implementation of programming languages, and he has published several books on the topic. He has many years of teaching experience on this and other programming subjects. Table of Contents Preface Part I Introduction Programming Languages Part II: Basic Concepts Values and Types Variables and Storage Bindings and Scope Procedural Abstraction Part III: Advanced Concepts Data Abstraction Generic Abstraction Type Systems Control Flow Concurrency Part IV: Paradigms Imperative Programming Object-Oriented Programming Concurrent Programming Functional Programming Scripting Part V: Conclusion Language Selection Language Design Bibliography Glossary Index