Programming languages provide the abstractions, organizing principles, and control structures that programmers use to write good programs. This book is about the concepts that appear in programming languages, issues that arise in their implemen- tation, and the way that language design affects program development. The text is divided into four parts:

Part 1: Functions and Foundations

Part 2: Procedures, Types, Memory Management, and Control

Part 3: Modularity, Abstraction, and Object-Oriented Programming

Part 4: Concurrency and Logic Programming