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CONCEPTS OF

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
TENTH EDITION

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CONCEPTS OF

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
TENTH EDITION

R OB E RT W. S EB ES TA
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Sebesta,Robert W.
Concepts of programming languages / Robert W. Sebesta.—10th ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-13-139531-2 (alk. paper)
1. Programming languages (Electronic computers) I. Title.
QA76.7.S43 2009
005.13—dc22

2008055702

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ISBN 10: 0-13-139531-9
ISBN 13: 978-0-13-139531-2

New to the Tenth Edition
Chapter 5: a newsection on the let construct in functional programming languages was added
Chapter 6: the section on COBOL's record operations was removed;
new sections on lists, tuples, and unions in F# were added
Chapter 8: discussions of Fortran's Do statement and Ada's case
statement were removed; descriptions of the control statements in
functional programming languages were moved to this chapter fromChapter 15
Chapter 9: a new section on closures, a new section on calling subprograms indirectly, and a new section on generic functions in F# were
added; the description of Ada's generic subprograms was removed
Chapter 11: a new section on Objective-C was added, the chapter
was substantially revised
Chapter 12: a new section on Objective-C was added, five new figures were added
Chapter 13: asection on concurrency in functional programming
languages was added; the discussion of Ada's asynchronous message
passing was removed
Chapter 14: a section on C# event handling was added
Chapter 15: a new section on F# and a new section on support for
functional programming in primarily imperative languages were added;
discussions of several different constructs in functional programming...