CSCI 312 - Programming Language Design

Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall

Prerequisites: CSCI 112 and 210, MATH 121 or 301. Formal language description tools, semantic concepts and syntactic constructs appropriate to diverse applications. Comparison of several high-level languages, such as Scheme, Java, ML, and PROLOG, and their implementations of these syntactic and semantic elements. Students learn the Scheme programming language and how to use it to write interpreters for other programming paradigms (object-oriented, logic-oriented, and type-inferencing). Staff.