COMP 356 - Theory of Programming Languages

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University of St Francis

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provides a historical study of programming language design, structure, and implementation. The emphasis is on the evolution of the imperitative languages, but more recent approaches such as object oriented, functional and procedural programming are considered. Some of the languages that may be covered include FORTRAN, ALGOL, Pascal, Ada, Lisp, Prolog, VRML, XML, Java and C+ +. Each language is examined in terms of its data structures, control structures, scope rules, and special syntax and semantic features. Prerequisite: COMP 150.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.stfrancis.edu

Phone Number:

(815) 740-3360

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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