具体描述
内容简介
本书对用于开发现代程序设计语言的主要模式作了概述，着重
讨论对现代程序设计极端重要的语言。作者在前两版基础上进行了
全面修订以反映程序设计语言设计的新进展，本书通过使用
和smalltalk介绍过程型语言和面向对象型语言，通过LISP，Prol0g和
ML讨论各种程序设计模式，FORTRAN90和Ad0－95用了新标准，LISP
和Pasca的内容作了更新。书内对每种重要的程序设计语言都作了
充分介绍，使读者不需要再购买单种语言的参考资料就可以解决所
关心的问题，每章后的阅读建议使读者有可能扩大对重要问题的了
解。
深入探索程序设计范式与底层机制 本书旨在为读者提供一个全面、深入的视角，剖析现代程序设计语言的理论基础、设计哲学以及底层实现机制。它不仅仅是一本关于特定编程语言用法的指南，更是一部引领读者理解“语言本身如何工作”的深度解析之作。 第一部分：语言的本质与设计哲学 本部分将语言的构造置于理论的框架下进行考察，探讨设计一门语言时所必须面对的权衡与选择。 1. 语法的形式化描述与解析 我们首先从严谨的数学角度审视程序语言的结构。讲解上下文无关文法（CFG）及其在定义语言语法中的核心地位。深入探讨巴科斯-诺尔范式（BNF）和扩展巴科斯-诺尔范式（EBNF），如何精确无歧义地描述语言的词法结构和句法结构。 随后，重点解析词法分析（Lexical Analysis）的过程，如何利用有限自动机（Finite Automata）将源代码流转化为有意义的记号（Tokens）。紧接着，深入句法分析（Parsing）的领域，对比自上而下（如递归下降）和自下而上（如LR分析）等主流解析技术的工作原理、优缺点及其在编译器构造中的实际应用。理解解析树（Parse Tree）和抽象语法树（Abstract Syntax Tree, AST）的构建过程，是理解后续语义分析的基础。 2. 语义的精确表达与类型系统 如果说语法定义了“程序看起来如何”，那么语义则定义了“程序意味着什么”。本章将剖析程序语言的操作语义、公理语义和多态语义等主要形式化描述方法。重点讲解如何精确定义语言的执行效果，确保程序行为的可预测性。 类型系统（Type System）是程序安全与正确性的基石。本书将详尽阐述静态类型与动态类型的区别与权衡，深入探讨类型推导（Type Inference）的复杂算法，例如Hindley-Milner算法的原理。同时，考察类型安全（Type Safety）的保证机制，包括子类型、结构化类型以及现代语言中日益重要的依赖类型（Dependent Types）的概念初探。 3. 程序控制流与抽象机制 控制流是程序逻辑的骨架。本书将超越简单的顺序、分支和循环结构，探讨非局部控制流（Non-local Control Flow），如异常处理（Exceptions）、协程（Coroutines）和生成器（Generators）的底层实现模型。 抽象是应对复杂性的核心手段。我们将系统地分析过程抽象（函数、模块）和数据抽象（类、接口、抽象数据类型ADT）的设计模式。特别关注面向对象编程（OOP）的本质——封装、继承与多态，以及函数式编程（FP）中高阶函数的强大威力及其对状态管理的深刻影响。 --- 第二部分：实现的技术深度与挑战 本部分关注如何将抽象的语言规范转化为可以在真实机器上高效运行的实体，即编译与解释的工程实践。 4. 编译器的中端优化技术 编译器设计是衡量语言实现成熟度的重要标志。本书将详细讲解中间表示（Intermediate Representation, IR）的设计，如三地址码、SSA（Static Single Assignment）形式，它们是如何作为优化阶段的通用平台。 核心内容聚焦于机器无关的优化：常量折叠、死代码消除、通用子表达式消除（CSE）、循环不变式外提等经典技术。深入探讨数据流分析（Data-Flow Analysis）在识别优化机会中的作用，为读者建立一个坚实的优化理论基础。 5. 目标代码生成与机器依赖性 中间表示如何映射到具体的目标机器指令集是本部分的焦点。讲解指令选择、寄存器分配等关键步骤的算法设计。特别关注复杂的寄存器分配问题，如基于图着色的算法。同时，剖析指令调度如何利用流水线（Pipeline）架构，最大化CPU的执行效率。 6. 内存管理与运行时系统 一个语言的内存模型决定了程序的性能特征和调试难度。本书全面对比手动内存管理（如C/C++）和自动内存管理（垃圾回收，GC）。深入分析主流的垃圾回收算法：引用计数、标记-清除（Mark-and-Sweep）、复制收集（Copying Collectors），以及现代分代回收（Generational GC）和并发回收（Concurrent GC）的工作原理与性能陷阱。此外，探讨运行时系统（Runtime System）对线程、I/O和启动时间的支持。 7. 动态语言的执行模型 针对具有高度动态特性的语言（如Python, JavaScript），本书阐述解释器（Interpreters）与即时编译（Just-In-Time Compilation, JIT）的实现细节。讨论字节码（Bytecode）的设计、栈机或寄存器机模型的构建。重点解析JIT编译中的热点代码识别、类型反馈（Type Feedback）机制以及如何平衡编译开销与执行速度，以实现高性能的动态语言运行时。 --- 第三部分：并发、并行与语言的演进 本部分探讨现代计算环境中，语言如何应对多核处理器和分布式系统的挑战。 8. 并发模型与同步机制 现代软件必须处理并发。本书系统对比不同的并发抽象：共享内存模型下的锁、信号量、监视器等传统同步原语，以及消息传递模型（如Actor模型）的优势。深入分析无锁数据结构（Lock-Free Data Structures）的设计原理，以及原子操作（Atomic Operations）在实现底层并发原语中的作用。强调数据竞争（Data Race）和死锁（Deadlock）的识别与规避策略。 9. 语言扩展与互操作性 一个成功的语言需要与其他系统良好集成。讲解外部函数接口（FFI）的工作机制，使得高级语言能够调用底层C库。探讨语言平台（如JVM, CLR）的虚拟机架构如何提供统一的执行环境和跨语言兼容性。 10. 程序的可靠性与形式验证方法 最后，本书展望如何利用语言设计来增强软件的可靠性。讨论契约式设计（Design by Contract）在实现上的挑战与收益。介绍模型检验（Model Checking）和定理证明（Theorem Proving）等形式化方法在验证复杂程序属性方面的应用前景，展示语言设计如何从根本上减少软件错误的发生。 本书以严谨的学术态度和丰富的工程案例为支撑，为有志于从事编译器开发、语言设计、高性能计算运行时构建的工程师和研究人员，提供了一个坚实的理论与实践基石。
作者简介
目录信息
Part 1. Concepts
1 The Study of Programming Languages
1.1 Why Study Programming Languages?
1.2 A Short History of Programming Languages
1.2.1 Development of Early Languages
1.2.2 Role of Programming Languages
1.3 What Makes a Good Language?
1.3.1 Attributes of a Good Language
1.3.2 Application Domains
1.3.3 T anguage Standardization
1.4 Effects of Environments on Languages
1.4.1 Batch-Processing Environments
1.4.2 Interactive Environments
1.4.3 Embedded System Environments
1.4.4 Programming Environments
1.4.5 Environment Frameworks
1.5 Suggestions for Further Reading
1.6 Problems
2 Language Design Issues
2.1 The Structure and Operation of a Computer
2.1.1 The Hardware of the Computer
2.1.2 Firmware Computers
2.1.3 Translators and Software-Simulated Computers
2.2 Virtual Computers and Binding Times
2.2.1 Syntax and Semantics
2.2.2 Virtual Computers and Language Implementations
2.2.3 Hierarchies of Computers
2.2.4 Binding and Binding Time
2.3 Language Paradigms
2.4 Suggestions for Further Reading
2.5 Problems
3 Language Translation Issues
3.1 Programming Language Syntax
3.1.1 General Syntactic Criteria
3.1.2 Syntactic Elements of a Language
3.1.3 Overall Program-Subprogram Structure
3.2 Stages in Translation
3.2.1 Analysis of the Source Program
3.2.2 Synthesis of the Object Program
3.3 Formal Translation Models
3.3.1 BNF Grammars
3.3.2 Finite-State Automata
3.3.3 Pushdown Automata
3.3.4 Efficient Parsing Algorithms
3.3.5 Semantic Modeling
3.4 Suggestions for Further Reading
3.5 Problems
4 Data Types
4.1 Properties of Types and Objects
4.1.1 Data Objects, Variables, and Constants
4.1.2 Data Types
4.1.3 Specification of Elementary Data Types
4.1.4 Implementation of Elementary Data Types
4.1.5 Declarations
4.1.6 Type Checking and Type Conversion
4.1.7 Assignment and Initialization
4.2 Elementary Data Types
4.2.1 Numeric Data Types
4.2.2 Enumerations
4.2.3 Booleans
4.2.4 Characters
4.2.5 Internationalization
4.3 Structured Data Types
4.3.1 Structured Data Objects and Data Types
4.3.2 Specification of Data Structure Types
4.3.3 Implementation of Data Structure Types
4.3.4 Declarations and Type Checking for Data Structures
4.3.5 Vectors and Arrays
4.3.6 Records
4.3.7 Lists
4.3.8 Character Strings
4.3.9 Pointers and Programmer-Constructed Data Objects
4.3.10 Sets
4.3.11 Executable Data Objects
4.3.12 Files and Input-Output
4.4 Suggestions for Further Reading
4.5 Problems
5 Abstraction 1: Encapsulation
5.1 Abstract Data Types
5.1.1 Evolution of the Data Type Concept
5.1.2 Information Hiding
5.2 Encapsulation by Subprograms
5.2.1 Subprograms as Abstract Operations
5.2.2 Subprogram Definition and Invocation
5.2.3 Subprogram Definitions as Data Objects
5.3 Type Definitions
5.3.1 Type Equivalence
5.3.2 Type Definitions with Parameters
5.4 Storage Management
5.4.1 Major Run-Time Elements Requiring Storage
5.4.2 Programmer- and System-Controlled Storage Management
5.4.3 Static Storage Management
5.4.4 Stack-Based Storage Management
5.4.5 Heap Storage Management: Fixed-Size Elements
5.4.6 Heap Storage Management: Variable-Size Elements
5.5 Suggestions for Purther Reading
5.6 Problems
6 Sequence Control
6.1 Implicit and Explicit Sequence Control
6.2 Sequencing with Arithmetic Expressions
6.2.1 Tree-Structure Representation
6.2.2 Execution-Time Representation
6.3 Sequencing with Nonarithmetic Expressions
6.3.1 Pattern Matching
6.3.2 Unification
6.3.3 Backtracking
6.4 Sequence Control Between Statements
6.4.1 Basic Statements
6.4.2 Structured Sequence Control
6.4.3 Prime Programs
6.5 Suggestions for Further Reading
6.6 Problems
7 Subprogram Control
7.1 Subprogram Sequence Control
7.1.1 Simple Call-Return Subprograms
7.1.2 Recursive Subprograms
7.2 Attributes of Data Control
7.2.1 Names and Referencing Environments
7.2.2 Static and Dynamic Scope
7.2.3 Block Structure
7.2.4 Local Data and Local Referencing Environments
7.3 Shared Data in Subprograms
7.3.1 Parameters and Parameter Transmission
7.3.2 Explicit Common Environments
7.3.3 Dynamic Scope
7.3.4 Static Scope and Block Structure
7.4 Suggestions for Further Reading
7.5 Problems
8 Abstraction 11: Inheritance
8.1 Abstract Data Types Revisited
8.2 Inheritance
8.2.1 Derived Classes
8.2.2 Methods
8.2.3 Abstract Classes
8.2.4 Objects and Messages
8.2.5 Abstraction Concepts
8.3 Polymorphism
8.4 Suggestions for Further Reading
8.5 Problems
9 Advances in Language Design
9.1 Variations on Subprogram Control
9.1.1 Exceptions and Exception Handlers
9.1.2 Coroutines
9.1.3 Scheduled Subprograms
9.1.4 Nonsequential Execution
9.2 Parallel Programming
9.2.1 Concurrent Execution
9.2.2 Guarded Commands
9.2.3 Tasks
9.2.4 Synchronization of Tasks
9.3 Formal Properties of Languages
9.3.1 Chomsky Hierarchy
9.3.2 Undecidability
9.3.3 Algorithm Complexity
9.4 Language Semantics
9.4.1 Denotational Semantics
9.4.2 Program Verification
9.4.3 Algebraic Data Types
9.4.4 Resolution
9.5 Hardware Developments
9.5.1 Processor Design
9.5.2 System Design
9.6 Software Architecture
9.6.1 Persistent Data and Transaction Systems
9.6.2 Networks and Client/Server Computing
9.6.3 Desktop Publishing
9.6.4 Programming Language Trends
9.7 Suggestions for Further Reading
9.8 Problems
Part 11. Paradigms and Languages
10 Simple Procedural Languages
10.1 FORTRAN
10.1.1 History
10.1.2 Hello World
10.1.3 Brief Overview of the Language
10.1.4 Data Objects
10.1.5 Sequence Control
10.1.6 Subprograms and Storage Management
10.1.7 Abstraction and Encapsulation
10.1.8 Language Evaluation
10.2 C
10.2.1 History
10.2.2 Hello World
10.2.3 Brief Overview of the Language
10.2.4 Data Objects
10.2.5 Sequence Control
10.2.6 Subprograms and Storage Management
10.2.7 Abstraction and Encapsulation
10.2.8 Language Evaluation
10.3 Suggestions for Further Reading
10.4 Problems
11 Block-Structured Procedural Languages
11.1 Pascal
11.1.1 History
11.1.2 Hello World
11.1.3 Brief Overview of the Language
11.1.4 Data Objects
11.1.5 Sequence Control
11.1.6 Subprograms and Storage Management
11.1.7 Abstraction and Encapsulation
11.1.8 Language Evaluation
11.2 Suggestions for Further Reading
11.3 Problems
12 Object-Based Languages
12.1 Ada
12:1.1 History
12.1.2 Hello World
12.1.3 Brief Overview of the Language
12.1.4 Data Objects
12.1.5 Sequence Control
12.1.6 Subprograms and Storage Management
12.1.7 Abstraction and Encapsulation
12.1.8 Language Evaluation
12.2 C++
12.2.1 History
12.2.2 Hello World
12.2.3 Brief Overview of the Language
12.2.4 Data Objects
12.2.5 Sequence Control
12.2.6 Subprograms and Storage Management
12.2.7 Abstraction and Encapsulation
12.2.8 Language Evaluation
12.3 Smalltalk
12.3,1 History
12.3.2 HelloWorld
12.3.3 Brief Overview of the Language
12.3.4 Data Objects
12.3.5 Sequence Control
12.3.6 Subprograms and Storage Management
12.3.7 Abstraction and Encapsulation
12.3.8 Language Evaluation
12.4 Suggestions for Further Reading
12.5 Problems
13 Functional Languages
13.1 LISP
13.1.1 History
13.1.2 HelloWorld
13.1.3 Brief Overview of the Language
13.1.4 Data Objects
13.1.5 Sequence Control
13.1.6 Subprograms and Storage Management
13.1.7 Abstraction and Encapsulation
13.1.8 Language Evaluation
13.2 ML
13.2.1 History
13.2.2 HelloWorld
13.2.3 Brief Overview of the Language
13.2.4 Data Objects
13.2.5 Sequence Control
13.2.6 Subprograms and Storage Management
13.2.7 Abstraction and Encapsulation
13.2.8 Language Evaluation
13.3 Suggestions for Further Reading
13.4 Problems
14 Logic Programming Languages
14.1 Prolog
14.1.1 History
14.1.2 HelloWorld
14.1.3 Brief Overview of the Language
14.1.4 Data Objects
14.1.5 Sequence Control
14.1.6 Subprograms and Storage Management
14.1.7 Abstraction and Encapsulation
14.1.8 Language Evaluation
14.2 Suggestions for Purther Reading
14.3 Problems
References
Index
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1 The Study of Programming Languages
1.1 Why Study Programming Languages?
1.2 A Short History of Programming Languages
1.2.1 Development of Early Languages
1.2.2 Role of Programming Languages
1.3 What Makes a Good Language?
1.3.1 Attributes of a Good Language
1.3.2 Application Domains
1.3.3 T anguage Standardization
1.4 Effects of Environments on Languages
1.4.1 Batch-Processing Environments
1.4.2 Interactive Environments
1.4.3 Embedded System Environments
1.4.4 Programming Environments
1.4.5 Environment Frameworks
1.5 Suggestions for Further Reading
1.6 Problems
2 Language Design Issues
2.1 The Structure and Operation of a Computer
2.1.1 The Hardware of the Computer
2.1.2 Firmware Computers
2.1.3 Translators and Software-Simulated Computers
2.2 Virtual Computers and Binding Times
2.2.1 Syntax and Semantics
2.2.2 Virtual Computers and Language Implementations
2.2.3 Hierarchies of Computers
2.2.4 Binding and Binding Time
2.3 Language Paradigms
2.4 Suggestions for Further Reading
2.5 Problems
3 Language Translation Issues
3.1 Programming Language Syntax
3.1.1 General Syntactic Criteria
3.1.2 Syntactic Elements of a Language
3.1.3 Overall Program-Subprogram Structure
3.2 Stages in Translation
3.2.1 Analysis of the Source Program
3.2.2 Synthesis of the Object Program
3.3 Formal Translation Models
3.3.1 BNF Grammars
3.3.2 Finite-State Automata
3.3.3 Pushdown Automata
3.3.4 Efficient Parsing Algorithms
3.3.5 Semantic Modeling
3.4 Suggestions for Further Reading
3.5 Problems
4 Data Types
4.1 Properties of Types and Objects
4.1.1 Data Objects, Variables, and Constants
4.1.2 Data Types
4.1.3 Specification of Elementary Data Types
4.1.4 Implementation of Elementary Data Types
4.1.5 Declarations
4.1.6 Type Checking and Type Conversion
4.1.7 Assignment and Initialization
4.2 Elementary Data Types
4.2.1 Numeric Data Types
4.2.2 Enumerations
4.2.3 Booleans
4.2.4 Characters
4.2.5 Internationalization
4.3 Structured Data Types
4.3.1 Structured Data Objects and Data Types
4.3.2 Specification of Data Structure Types
4.3.3 Implementation of Data Structure Types
4.3.4 Declarations and Type Checking for Data Structures
4.3.5 Vectors and Arrays
4.3.6 Records
4.3.7 Lists
4.3.8 Character Strings
4.3.9 Pointers and Programmer-Constructed Data Objects
4.3.10 Sets
4.3.11 Executable Data Objects
4.3.12 Files and Input-Output
4.4 Suggestions for Further Reading
4.5 Problems
5 Abstraction 1: Encapsulation
5.1 Abstract Data Types
5.1.1 Evolution of the Data Type Concept
5.1.2 Information Hiding
5.2 Encapsulation by Subprograms
5.2.1 Subprograms as Abstract Operations
5.2.2 Subprogram Definition and Invocation
5.2.3 Subprogram Definitions as Data Objects
5.3 Type Definitions
5.3.1 Type Equivalence
5.3.2 Type Definitions with Parameters
5.4 Storage Management
5.4.1 Major Run-Time Elements Requiring Storage
5.4.2 Programmer- and System-Controlled Storage Management
5.4.3 Static Storage Management
5.4.4 Stack-Based Storage Management
5.4.5 Heap Storage Management: Fixed-Size Elements
5.4.6 Heap Storage Management: Variable-Size Elements
5.5 Suggestions for Purther Reading
5.6 Problems
6 Sequence Control
6.1 Implicit and Explicit Sequence Control
6.2 Sequencing with Arithmetic Expressions
6.2.1 Tree-Structure Representation
6.2.2 Execution-Time Representation
6.3 Sequencing with Nonarithmetic Expressions
6.3.1 Pattern Matching
6.3.2 Unification
6.3.3 Backtracking
6.4 Sequence Control Between Statements
6.4.1 Basic Statements
6.4.2 Structured Sequence Control
6.4.3 Prime Programs
6.5 Suggestions for Further Reading
6.6 Problems
7 Subprogram Control
7.1 Subprogram Sequence Control
7.1.1 Simple Call-Return Subprograms
7.1.2 Recursive Subprograms
7.2 Attributes of Data Control
7.2.1 Names and Referencing Environments
7.2.2 Static and Dynamic Scope
7.2.3 Block Structure
7.2.4 Local Data and Local Referencing Environments
7.3 Shared Data in Subprograms
7.3.1 Parameters and Parameter Transmission
7.3.2 Explicit Common Environments
7.3.3 Dynamic Scope
7.3.4 Static Scope and Block Structure
7.4 Suggestions for Further Reading
7.5 Problems
8 Abstraction 11: Inheritance
8.1 Abstract Data Types Revisited
8.2 Inheritance
8.2.1 Derived Classes
8.2.2 Methods
8.2.3 Abstract Classes
8.2.4 Objects and Messages
8.2.5 Abstraction Concepts
8.3 Polymorphism
8.4 Suggestions for Further Reading
8.5 Problems
9 Advances in Language Design
9.1 Variations on Subprogram Control
9.1.1 Exceptions and Exception Handlers
9.1.2 Coroutines
9.1.3 Scheduled Subprograms
9.1.4 Nonsequential Execution
9.2 Parallel Programming
9.2.1 Concurrent Execution
9.2.2 Guarded Commands
9.2.3 Tasks
9.2.4 Synchronization of Tasks
9.3 Formal Properties of Languages
9.3.1 Chomsky Hierarchy
9.3.2 Undecidability
9.3.3 Algorithm Complexity
9.4 Language Semantics
9.4.1 Denotational Semantics
9.4.2 Program Verification
9.4.3 Algebraic Data Types
9.4.4 Resolution
9.5 Hardware Developments
9.5.1 Processor Design
9.5.2 System Design
9.6 Software Architecture
9.6.1 Persistent Data and Transaction Systems
9.6.2 Networks and Client/Server Computing
9.6.3 Desktop Publishing
9.6.4 Programming Language Trends
9.7 Suggestions for Further Reading
9.8 Problems
Part 11. Paradigms and Languages
10 Simple Procedural Languages
10.1 FORTRAN
10.1.1 History
10.1.2 Hello World
10.1.3 Brief Overview of the Language
10.1.4 Data Objects
10.1.5 Sequence Control
10.1.6 Subprograms and Storage Management
10.1.7 Abstraction and Encapsulation
10.1.8 Language Evaluation
10.2 C
10.2.1 History
10.2.2 Hello World
10.2.3 Brief Overview of the Language
10.2.4 Data Objects
10.2.5 Sequence Control
10.2.6 Subprograms and Storage Management
10.2.7 Abstraction and Encapsulation
10.2.8 Language Evaluation
10.3 Suggestions for Further Reading
10.4 Problems
11 Block-Structured Procedural Languages
11.1 Pascal
11.1.1 History
11.1.2 Hello World
11.1.3 Brief Overview of the Language
11.1.4 Data Objects
11.1.5 Sequence Control
11.1.6 Subprograms and Storage Management
11.1.7 Abstraction and Encapsulation
11.1.8 Language Evaluation
11.2 Suggestions for Further Reading
11.3 Problems
12 Object-Based Languages
12.1 Ada
12:1.1 History
12.1.2 Hello World
12.1.3 Brief Overview of the Language
12.1.4 Data Objects
12.1.5 Sequence Control
12.1.6 Subprograms and Storage Management
12.1.7 Abstraction and Encapsulation
12.1.8 Language Evaluation
12.2 C++
12.2.1 History
12.2.2 Hello World
12.2.3 Brief Overview of the Language
12.2.4 Data Objects
12.2.5 Sequence Control
12.2.6 Subprograms and Storage Management
12.2.7 Abstraction and Encapsulation
12.2.8 Language Evaluation
12.3 Smalltalk
12.3,1 History
12.3.2 HelloWorld
12.3.3 Brief Overview of the Language
12.3.4 Data Objects
12.3.5 Sequence Control
12.3.6 Subprograms and Storage Management
12.3.7 Abstraction and Encapsulation
12.3.8 Language Evaluation
12.4 Suggestions for Further Reading
12.5 Problems
13 Functional Languages
13.1 LISP
13.1.1 History
13.1.2 HelloWorld
13.1.3 Brief Overview of the Language
13.1.4 Data Objects
13.1.5 Sequence Control
13.1.6 Subprograms and Storage Management
13.1.7 Abstraction and Encapsulation
13.1.8 Language Evaluation
13.2 ML
13.2.1 History
13.2.2 HelloWorld
13.2.3 Brief Overview of the Language
13.2.4 Data Objects
13.2.5 Sequence Control
13.2.6 Subprograms and Storage Management
13.2.7 Abstraction and Encapsulation
13.2.8 Language Evaluation
13.3 Suggestions for Further Reading
13.4 Problems
14 Logic Programming Languages
14.1 Prolog
14.1.1 History
14.1.2 HelloWorld
14.1.3 Brief Overview of the Language
14.1.4 Data Objects
14.1.5 Sequence Control
14.1.6 Subprograms and Storage Management
14.1.7 Abstraction and Encapsulation
14.1.8 Language Evaluation
14.2 Suggestions for Purther Reading
14.3 Problems
References
Index
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