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Here's a request: someone once recommended a text book which lays the foundations for understanding all different kinds of programming languages (and presumabl

Here's a request: someone once recommended a text book which lays the foundations for understanding all different kinds of programming languages (and presumably their design tradeoffs). And the people who had read it commented that it made it easy to understand different programming languages quickly. Anyone got an idea of what book that might be?

curious16 4y ago
Maybe Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP)?
spapas82 4y ago
A classic reading on the field of programming language theory is the Sebesta one: Concepts of Programming Languages.
- sarchertech 4y ago
  The programming language concepts class I took in college used that as our text book. Looking back it was one of the most useful classes I took.
  - lamontcg 4y ago
    I think this might have been the textbook I was thinking of. It wasn't SICP and I don't think it was CTM.
fiddlerwoaroof 4y ago
That sounds to me like “Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming”
- rramadass 4y ago
  Agreed, he/she really needs to take a look at this book - https://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/book.html https://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/book.html