Chapter 1 Basic Principles of Programming Languages

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1 Chapter 1 Basic Principles of Programming Languages Although there exist many Programming Languages , the differences among them are insignificant compared to the differences among natural Languages . In this Chapter , we discuss the common aspects shared among different Programming Languages . These aspects include: Programming paradigms that define how computation is expressed; the main features of Programming Languages and their impact on the performance of programs written in the Languages ; a brief review of the history and development of Programming Languages ; the lexical, syntactic, and semantic structures of Programming Languages , data and data types, program processing and preprocessing, and the life cycles of program development. At the end of the Chapter , you should have learned: what Programming paradigms are; an overview of different Programming Languages and the background knowledge of these Languages ; the structures of Programming Languages and how Programming Languages are defined at the syntactic level; data types, strong versus weak checking; the relationship between language features and their performances; the pr

Lisp contains many nonfunctional features. Scheme can be considered a subset of Lisp with fewer nonfunctional features. Prolog’s arithmetic operations are based on the imperative paradigm. Nonetheless, we will focus on the paradigm-related features of the languages when we study the sample

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