Programming Language Pragmatics
Fourth Edition

Morgan Kaufmann Publishers

Click here for the Fifth edition.
Resources are also still available for the First, Second, and Third editions. 

On-line resources

• Companion site

Maintained by Elsevier, this site contains more than 350 pages of supplemental material, together with PDF and PPT versions of all the book’s figures, and complete source code for all nontrivial examples. 

• Foreword by David Padua, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Preface
  • Changes in the Fourth Edition
  • How to Use the Book
  • Supplemental Materials
  • Acknowledgments for the Fourth Edition
• Table of Contents
• A message from the author
• About the author
• Errata

• Instructors’ Materials
  • Solutions to selected exercises
  • Suggested programming projects

  To access the instructors’ materials, you will need to have an instructor’s account with Elsevier.  See either of the pages above for instructions. 

  Reviews (various editions)

  • by Francis Glassborow of the Association of C and C++ Users.
  • by Philip Daly CEng, MBCS, Senior Scientific Programmer and Director, realtimelinux.org.
  • by James Larus, EPFL (formerly at Microsoft Research).
  • by Tom Crick, MBCS, The Chartered Institute for IT.
  • at Amazon.com:
    • third edition
    • fourth edition
  • Blogs:
    • Andrae Muys
    • Dmitry Vostokov
  • Forewords:
    • to the Second Edition, by James Larus, then at Microsoft Research
    • to the Third Edition, by Barbara Ryder, Virginia Tech
    • to the Fourth Edition, by David Padua, UIUC

  Schools that have adopted the book
  with links to course home pages where known

  How to order

  • Direct from Elsevier
  • Amazon.com
  • Barnes and Noble