From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from weis@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id WAA08182 for caml-red; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 22:56:34 +0100 (MET) Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA26915 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 11:26:33 +0100 (MET) Received: from pochi.inria.fr (pochi.inria.fr [128.93.8.128]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) with ESMTP id f0MAQRb17370; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 11:26:27 +0100 (MET) Received: (from mentre@localhost) by pochi.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.10.0) id f0MAQRN15349; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 11:26:27 +0100 X-Authentication-Warning: pochi.inria.fr: mentre set sender to David.Mentre@inria.fr using -f To: Markus Mottl Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [off-topic] Survey or book on programming language structures References: <20010120180523.A24778@miss.wu-wien.ac.at> From: David Mentre X-PhD-defense: in 1 months and 5 days. Date: 22 Jan 2001 11:26:27 +0100 In-Reply-To: Markus Mottl's message of "Sat, 20 Jan 2001 18:05:23 +0100" Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: weis@pauillac.inria.fr Hi Markus, Markus Mottl writes: > http://cseng.aw.com/book/related/0,3833,0805311912+20,00.html > > It covers just about any programming paradigm and also gives a soft > introduction to formal programming language semantics. It seems that it > is exactly what you are looking for... Thank you for this reference. I've already quickly looked at it (too quickly?) but found it not very informative. The author just go through various programming paradigms and the languages that embodies them but it does not try to _compare_ the paradigms (except within one category, i.e. OO, functionnal, ...). I am more interested in a comparison of paradigms in a broader view (how adaptation is handled by functionnal and object-oriented styles for example) and a formalization (i.e. theorical presentation) of those paradigms in a common framework. Anyway, thank you for your pointer, Best regards, d. -- David.Mentre@inria.fr -- http://www.irisa.fr/prive/dmentre/ Opinions expressed here are only mine.