CS 7843 - Theory of Programming Languages

3-0-3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: NA
Corequisite: None
Comparative study of programming language paradigms with emphasis on design and implementation issues. Covers formal definitions of syntax and semantics, data types, scanning, parsing, scoping, static and dynamic storage allocation, definition of operations, control of program flow, code generation, virtual machine, subroutine and function linkages, formal tools for characterizing program execution, and abstraction techniques.