Programming Languages: Theory and Practice
by Robert Harper
Publisher: Carnegie Mellon University 2005
Number of pages: 277
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What follows is a working draft of a planned book that seeks to strike a careful balance between developing the theoretical foundations of programming languages and explaining the pragmatic issues involved in their design and implementation.
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