1 C++&Bjarne Stroustrup 1
Design Decisions 2
Using the Language 6
OOP and Concurrency 9
Future 13
Teaching 16
2 PYTHON&Guido van Rossum 19
The Pythonic Way 20
The Good Programmer 27
Multiple Pythons 32
Expedients and Experience 37
3 APL&Adin H.Falkoff 43
Paper and Pencil 44
Elementary Principles 47
Parallelism 53
Legacy 56
4 FORTH&Charles D.Moore 59
The Forth Language and Language Design 60
Hardware 67
Application Design 71
5 BASIC&Thomas E.Kurtz 79
The Goals Behind BASIC 80
Compiler Design 86
Language and Programming Practice 90
Language Design 91
Work Goals 97
6 AWK&Alfred Aho,Peter Weinberger,and Brian Kernighan 101
The Life of Algorithms 102
Language Design 104
Unix and Its Culture 106
The Role of Documentation 111
Computer Science 114
Breeding Little Languages 116
Designing a New Language 121
Legacy Culture 129
Transformative Technologies 132
Bits That Change the Universe 137
Theory and Practice 142
Waiting for a Breakthrough 149
Programming by Example 154
7 LUA&Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo and Roberto lerusalimschy 161
The Power of Scripting 162
Experience 165
Language Design 169
8 HASKELL&Simon Peyton Jones,Paul Hudak,Philip Wadler,and John Hughes 177
A Functional Team 178
Trajectory of Functional Programming 180
The Haskell Language 187
Spreading(Functional)Education 194
Formalism and Evolution 196
9 ML&Robin Milner 203
The Soundness of Theorems 204
The Theory of Meaning 212
Beyond Informatics 218
10 SQL&Don Chamberlin 225
A Seminal Paper 226
The Language 229
Feedback and Evolution 233
XQuery and XML 238
11 OBJECTIVE-C&Brad Cox and Tom Love 241
Engineering Objective-C 242
Growing a Language 244
Education and Training 249
Project Management and Legacy Software 251
Objective-C and Other Languages 258
Components,Sand,and Bricks 263
Quality As an Economic Phenomenon 269
Education 272
12 JAVA&James Gosling 277
Power or Simplicity 278
A Matter of Taste 281
Concurrency 285
Designing a Language 287
Feedback Loop 291
13 C#&Anders Hejlsberg 295
Language and Design 296
Growing a Language 302
C 306
The Future of Computer Science 311
14 UML&Ivar Jacobson,James Rumbaugh,and Grady Booch 317
Learning and Teaching 318
The Role of the People 323
UML 328
Knowledge 331
Be Ready for Change 334
Using UML 339
Layers and Languages 343
A Bit of Reusability 348
Symmetric Relationships 352
UML 356
Language Design 358
Training Developers 364
Creativity,Refinement,and Patterns 366
15 PERL&Larry Wall 375
The Language of Revolutions 376
Language 380
Community 386
Evolution and Revolution 389
16 POSTSCRIPT&Charles Geschke and John Warnock 395
Designed to Last 396
Research and Education 406
Interfaces to Longevity 410
Standard Wishes 414
17 EIFFEL&Bertrand Meyer 417
An Inspired Afternoon 418
Reusability and Genericity 425
Proofreading Languages 429
Managing Growth and Evolution 436
AFTERWORD 441
CONTRIBUTORS 443
INDEX 459