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.

1.1.2 Program performance and features of programming languages A programming language’s features include orthogonality or simplicity, available control structures, data types and data structures, syntax design, support for abstraction, expressiveness, type equivalence, and

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