Concepts in programming languages
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When I learnt to program, there were only two languages that were worth learning, Algol 60 and assembler. ‘Programming languages’ was once an easy course to teach, but as more languages were introduced it became harder and harder, and most books for undergraduates turned from textbooks into encyclopedias, trying to cover all known languages. Somewhere along the line the idea that it was worth thinking about different styles of programming languages got lost. Today most students are now exposed to only a few languages and they gain little appreciation of, on the one hand, the breadth of programming language paradigms and design trade offs, and on the other hand the central concepts that underpin the apparent diversity.
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