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Here's a request: someone once recommended a text book which lays the foundations for understanding all different kinds of programming languages (and presumably their design tradeoffs). And the people who had read it commented that it made it easy to understand different programming languages quickly. Anyone got an idea of what book that might be?


That sounds to me like “Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming”


Agreed, he/she really needs to take a look at this book - https://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/book.html


A classic reading on the field of programming language theory is the Sebesta one: Concepts of Programming Languages.


The programming language concepts class I took in college used that as our text book. Looking back it was one of the most useful classes I took.


I think this might have been the textbook I was thinking of. It wasn't SICP and I don't think it was CTM.


Maybe Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP)?




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