Programming Languages

Catalog description

Lecture topics typically include examination of the syntactic and semantic features of Pascal, C, Prolog, LISP, and other languages, focusing on data types, lists and trees, language features affecting static and dynamic storage, control structures and data flow, subroutine procedures, block structures and interrupts, run time considerations, string processing with language features such as those available in SNOBOL4 and Perl. (Topics covered may vary considerably from year to year.)