Principles of Programming Languages: Design, Evaluation, and Implementation

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Summary: Contains some valuable stuff on "outdated" languages.
Review: I just purchased this book (at a fraction of the original price ;-) ) after browsing briefly through the chapters on Lisp and Smalltalk, which I found very well written. Another chapter introduces into language implementation issues (the stack machine, activation records, ... ).

If you are not already a computer scientist and don't bother with C++ and Java, this book may be interesting for you as well.

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Summary: Very out of date.
Review: This book reads like it was written in 1990 and the author never bothered to do any further research. It makes some good points, but it should not be a first choice for a survey of the state of the art with regard to functional, OO, and logic programming.