Advanced Programming Languages

This is a wonderful book that covers tons of languages, including several that are far from the mainstream. The author demonstrates a very strong knowledge of all concepts discussed in the book, and wording is very clear and concise. This is an excellent book for undergradute or graduate courses on programming languages.

It is a book special to all that want to know interesting details about useful and "popular" languages like C, Pascal, etc, but also about that so called "classic"(on that concerns design) that are not so current, like Icon, CSP, going up to outsiders like Io. It is great for an undergraduate course on programming language topics (to show why things are not finished just in Computer Programming I) or even to stimulate graduate students to research in area. Perhaps not the best scientifically (Watt or Appel did better, yeat!), but is the best in motivation!