Concepts in Programming Languages – University of Cambridge Course

The following are all copy and pasted from a University of Cambridge course link to the website below. It was accessible by public, so I figured I should dump it here. Maybe I can read some of this when I have a vacation.
Lecture slides

  • Introduction and motivation.
    Additional reading material:
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  • K. Zuse. Plankalkul.
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  • The first procedural language: FORTRAN (1954-58).
    Additional reading material:
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  • Fortran.
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  • The first declarative language: LISP (1958-62).
    Additional reading material:
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  • J. McCarthy. Recursive functions of symbolic expressions and their computation by machine.
    Communications of the ACM, 3(4):184-195, 1960.
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  • Block-structured procedural languages: Algol (1958-68) and Pascal (1970).
    Appendix: BCPL (1967) and C (1971-78)
    Additional reading material:
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  • D. E. Knuth. The remaining trouble spots in ALGOL 60.
    Communications of the ACM, Volume 10, Issue 10, pages 611-618, 1967.
  • B. Kerninghan. Why Pascal is not my favorite programming language.
    AT&T Bell Laboratories. Computing Science Technical Report No. 100, 1981.
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  • Object-oriented languages — Concepts and origins: SIMULA (1964-67) and Smalltalk (1971-80).
    SML code: Objects in SML!?
    Programming language: Squeak.
    Additional reading material:
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  • A. C. Kay. The early history of Smalltalk.
    ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 28, No. 3, 1993.
  • P. Wegner. Concepts and Paradigms of Object-Oriented Programming
    Expansion of OOPSLA-89 Keynote Talk.
  • B. Stroustrup. What is Object-Oriented Programming? (1991 revised version).
    Proc. 1st European Software Festival. February, 1991.
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  • Types in programming languages: ML (1973-1978).
    Additional reading material:
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  • A. Koenig. An anecdote about ML type inference.
    USENIX Symp. on Very High Level Languages, 1994.
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  • Data abstraction and modularity: SML Modules (1984-97).
    Additional reading material:
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  • M. Tofte. Four Lectures on Standard ML.
    LFCS Report Series ECS-LFCS-89-73, 1989.
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  • The state of the art: Scala (2004-2006).
    Programming language: Scala.
    Additional reading material:
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  • M. Odersky et al. An overview of the Scala programming language.
    Technical Report LAMP-REPORT-2006-001, Second Edition, 2006.
  • M. Odersky et al. A Tour of the Scala Programming Language.
    Programming Methods Laboratory, EPFL, 2007.
  • M. Odersky. Scala By Example.
    Programming Methods Laboratory, EPFL, 2008.
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    Books

  • Main:
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  • M. Scott. Programming Language Pragmatics (2nd edition).
    Morgan Kaufmann, 2006.
  • J.C. Mitchell. Concepts in programming languages.
    Cambridge University Press, 2003.
  • T.W.Pratt and M.V.Zelkowitz. Programming Languages: Design and implementation (3rd edition).
    Prentice Hall, 1999.
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  • Other:
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  • R. L. Wexelblat (ed.). History of Programming Languages.
    ACM Monograph Series, 1981.
  • N. Metropolis, J. Howlett, G.-C. Rota (eds.). A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century: A Colletion of Essays.
    Academic Press, 1980.
  • T.J. Bergin and R. G. Gibson (eds.). History of programming languages – II.
    ACM Press, 1996.
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    [Actual Course Website]

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