Description

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This is the first programming language concepts and compiler book based on the functional language F#

Topics covered include language design, implementation and performance consequences for the mainstream object-orientated languages Java and C#

Relates the C language and its compilation, both to an abstract stack machine and to real x86 hardware

Exercises inside with full source code for examples and concepts permit experimentation

About the Author

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Peter Sestoft is professor and head of department at the IT University of Copenhagen. He has 25 years teaching experience and his research interests include functional and object-oriented programming languages, the implementation of such languages, and parallel programming on multicore machines. He is the author or co-author of six books published by MIT Press, Morgan Kaufmann, Prentice-Hall and Springer.