1. COP4020 Programming Language Concepts Dr. Manuel E. Bermudez
Summary
COP4020 Programming Language Concepts Dr. Manuel E. Bermudez

2. Course Topics Paradigms. Compilation. Regular Languages, Scanning.
Context-free Languages, Parsing.
RPAL
Names, Scopes and Bindings.
Scoping Rules.
Scheme and Prolog
Object-Oriented Languages.

3. issues Focus on linguistics Four Paradigms: Imperative. Functional.
Logic.
Object-Oriented.

4. Topics not covered PL Design Semantics (grad course) History of PLs.
See Chapter 24 of

5. Some observations PLs are: Like humans Incredibly Diverse
Love/hate relationships
Incredibly Diverse
RPAL listed among >1500 languages at
Subject of heated debates
Constantly evolving.
Unpredictable RE widespread use

6. Some observations PLs are: Influential on: FUN ! Programming practice
Gotos, O-O
Machine architecture:
Stack support
Parallel computing
Power efficiency.
FUN !