Programming Languages:Introduction and Overview

Table of Contents

Programming Languages:Introduction and Overview

Course topics

Required work

Organizational

History of Programming Languages

History ofProgramming Languages

History ofProgramming Languages

History ofProgramming Languages

What is a programming language for?

Effective Use of Programming Languages

Why do we care?

Language classification

Complexity vs. Expressiveness

What’s wrong with imperative?

Assignments makereasoning difficult!

Imperative programming

The Functional Approach

Scheme

Miranda (and Haskell)

Constraint Logic Programming