Programming Languages :Programming Languages
Programming Languages :Programming Languages
Roadmap :Roadmap Course Schedule
Programming Paradigms
A Quick Tour of Programming Language History
Roadmap :Roadmap Course Schedule
Programming Paradigms
A Quick Tour of Programming Language History
Sources :Sources Text:
Kenneth C. Louden, Programming Languages: Principles and Practice, PWS Publishing (Boston), 1993.
Other Sources:
Paul Hudak, “Conception, Evolution, and Application of Functional Programming Languages,” ACM Computing Surveys 21/3, 1989, pp 359-411.
Clocksin and Mellish, Programming in Prolog, Springer Verlag, 1981.
Schedule :Schedule Introduction
Stack-based programming
Prototype-based programming
Functional programming
Type systems
Lambda calculus
Fixed points
Programming language semantics
Logic programming
Applications of logic programming
Visual programming
Summary, Trends, Research
Final exam
Roadmap :Roadmap Course Schedule
Programming Paradigms
A Quick Tour of Programming Language History
What is a Programming Language? :What is a Programming Language? A formal language for describing computation?
A “user interface” to a computer?
Syntax + semantics?
Compiler, or interpreter, or translator?
A tool to support a programming paradigm?
“A programming language is a notational system for describing computation in a machine-readable and human-readable form.”
— Louden
What is a Programming Language? (II) :What is a Programming Language? (II) The thesis of this course:
A programming language is a tool for developing executable models for a class of problem domains.
Themes Addressed in this Course :Themes Addressed in this Course Paradigms
What computational paradigms are supported by modern, high-level programming languages?
How well do these paradigms match classes of programming problems?
Abstraction
How do different languages abstract away from the low-level details of the underlying hardware implementation?
How do different languages support the specification of software abstractions needed for a specific task?
Types
How do type systems help in the construction of flexible, reliable software?
Semantics
How can one formalize the meaning of a programming language?
How can semantics aid in the implementation of a programming language?
Generations of Programming Languages :Generations of Programming Languages 1GL: machine codes
2GL: symbolic assemblers
3GL: (machine independent) imperative languages (FORTRAN, Pascal, C ...)
4GL: domain specific application generators
Each generation is at a higher level of abstraction
How do Programming Languages Differ? :How do Programming Languages Differ? Common Constructs:
basic data types (numbers, etc.); variables; expressions; statements; keywords; control constructs; procedures; comments; errors ...
Uncommon Constructs:
type declarations; special types (strings, arrays, matrices, ...); sequential execution; concurrency constructs; packages/modules; objects; general functions; generics; modifiable state; ...
Programming Paradigms :Programming Paradigms
Compilers and Interpreters :Compilers and Interpreters Compilers and interpreters have similar front-ends, but have different back-ends: Details will differ, but the general scheme remains the same ...
Roadmap :Roadmap Course Schedule
Programming Paradigms
A Quick Tour of Programming Language History
A Brief Chronology :A Brief Chronology
Fortran :Fortran History
John Backus (1953) sought to write programs in conventional mathematical notation, and generate code comparable to good assembly programs.
No language design effort (made it up as they went along)
Most effort spent on code generation and optimization
FORTRAN I released April 1957; working by April 1958
Current standards are FORTRAN 77 and FORTRAN 90
Fortran … :Fortran … Innovations
Symbolic notation for subroutines and functions
Assignments to variables of complex expressions
DO loops
Comments
Input/output formats
Machine-independence
Successes
Easy to learn; high level
Promoted by IBM; addressed large user base
(scientific computing)
“Hello World” in FORTRAN :“Hello World” in FORTRAN All examples from the ACM "Hello World" project:
www2.latech.edu/~acm/HelloWorld.shtml PROGRAM HELLO
DO 10, I=1,10
PRINT *,'Hello World'
10 CONTINUE
STOP
END
ALGOL 60 :ALGOL 60 History
Committee of PL experts formed in 1955 to design universal, machine-independent, algorithmic language
First version (ALGOL 58) never implemented; criticisms led to ALGOL 60
Innovations
BNF (Backus-Naur Form) introduced to define syntax (led to syntax-directed compilers)
First block-structured language; variables with local scope
Structured control statements
Recursive procedures
Variable size arrays
Successes
Highly influenced design of other PLs but never displaced FORTRAN
“Hello World” in BEALGOL :“Hello World” in BEALGOL BEGIN
FILE F (KIND=REMOTE);
EBCDIC ARRAY E [0:11];
REPLACE E BY "HELLO WORLD!";
WHILE TRUE DO
BEGIN
WRITE (F, *, E);
END;
END.
COBOL :COBOL History
Designed by committee of US computer manufacturers
Targeted business applications
Intended to be readable by managers (!)
Innovations
Separate descriptions of environment, data, and processes
Successes
Adopted as de facto standard by US DOD
Stable standard for 25 years
Still the most widely used PL for business applications (!)
“Hello World” in COBOL :“Hello World” in COBOL 000100 IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
000200 PROGRAM-ID. HELLOWORLD.
000300 DATE-WRITTEN. 02/05/96 21:04.
000400* AUTHOR BRIAN COLLINS
000500 ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
000600 CONFIGURATION SECTION.
000700 SOURCE-COMPUTER. RM-COBOL.
000800 OBJECT-COMPUTER. RM-COBOL.
001000 DATA DIVISION.
001100 FILE SECTION.
100000 PROCEDURE DIVISION.
100200 MAIN-LOGIC SECTION.
100300 BEGIN.
100400 DISPLAY " " LINE 1 POSITION 1 ERASE EOS.
100500 DISPLAY "HELLO, WORLD." LINE 15 POSITION 10.
100600 STOP RUN.
100700 MAIN-LOGIC-EXIT.
100800 EXIT.
PL/1 :PL/1 History
Designed by committee of IBM and users (early 1960s)
Intended as (large) general-purpose language for broad classes of applications
Innovations
Support for concurrency (but not synchronization)
Exception-handling on conditions
Successes
Achieved both run-time efficiency and flexibility (at expense of complexity)
First “complete” general purpose language
“Hello World” in PL/1 :“Hello World” in PL/1 HELLO: PROCEDURE OPTIONS (MAIN);
/* A PROGRAM TO OUTPUT HELLO WORLD */
FLAG = 0;
LOOP: DO WHILE (FLAG = 0);
PUT SKIP DATA('HELLO WORLD!');
END LOOP;
END HELLO;
Functional Languages :Functional Languages ISWIM (If you See What I Mean)
Peter Landin (1966) — paper proposal
FP
John Backus (1978) — Turing award lecture
ML
Edinburgh
initially designed as meta-language for theorem proving
Hindley-Milner type inference
“non-pure” functional language (with assignments/side effects)
Miranda, Haskell
“pure” functional languages with “lazy evaluation”
“Hello World” in Functional Languages :“Hello World” in Functional Languages SML
Haskell print("hello world!\n"); hello() = print "Hello World"
Prolog :Prolog History
Originated at U. Marseilles (early 1970s), and compilers developed at Marseilles and Edinburgh (mid to late 1970s)
Innovations
Theorem proving paradigm
Programs as sets of clauses: facts, rules and questions
Computation by “unification”
Successes
Prototypical logic programming language
Used in Japanese Fifth Generation Initiative
“Hello World” in Prolog :“Hello World” in Prolog hello :- printstring("HELLO WORLD!!!!").
printstring([]).
printstring([H|T]) :- put(H), printstring(T).
Object-Oriented Languages :Object-Oriented Languages History
Simula was developed by Nygaard and Dahl (early 1960s) in Oslo as a language for simulation programming, by adding classes and inheritance to ALGOL 60
Smalltalk was developed by Xerox PARC (early 1970s) to drive graphic workstations Begin
while 1 = 1 do begin
outtext ("Hello World!");
outimage;
end;
End; Transcript show:'Hello World';cr
Object-Oriented Languages :Object-Oriented Languages Innovations
Encapsulation of data and operations (contrast ADTs)
Inheritance to share behaviour and interfaces
Successes
Smalltalk project pioneered OO user interfaces
Large commercial impact since mid 1980s
Countless new languages: C++, Objective C, Eiffel, Beta, Oberon, Self, Perl 5, Python, Java, Ada 95 ...
Interactive Languages :Interactive Languages Made possible by advent of time-sharing systems (early 1960s through mid 1970s).
BASIC
Developed at Dartmouth College in mid 1960s
Minimal; easy to learn
Incorporated basic O/S commands (NEW, LIST, DELETE, RUN, SAVE)
... 10 print "Hello World!"
20 goto 10
Interactive Languages ... :Interactive Languages ... APL
Developed by Ken Iverson for concise description of numerical algorithms
Large, non-standard alphabet (52 characters in addition to alphanumerics)
Primitive objects are arrays (lists, tables or matrices)
Operator-driven (power comes from composing array operators)
No operator precedence (statements parsed right to left) 'HELLO WORLD'
Special-Purpose Languages :Special-Purpose Languages SNOBOL
First successful string manipulation language
Influenced design of text editors more than other PLs
String operations: pattern-matching and substitution
Arrays and associative arrays (tables)
Variable-length strings
... OUTPUT = 'Hello World!'
END
Symbolic Languages ... :Symbolic Languages ... Lisp
Performs computations on symbolic expressions
Symbolic expressions are represented as lists
Small set of constructor/selector operations to create and manipulate lists
Recursive rather than iterative control
No distinction between data and programs
First PL to implement storage management by garbage collection
Affinity with lambda calculus (DEFUN HELLO-WORLD ()
(PRINT (LIST 'HELLO 'WORLD)))
4GLs :4GLs “Problem-oriented” languages
PLs for “non-programmers”
Very High Level (VHL) languages for specific problem domains
Classes of 4GLs (no clear boundaries)
Report Program Generator (RPG)
Application generators
Query languages
Decision-support languages
Successes
Highly popular, but generally ad hoc
“Hello World” in RPG :“Hello World” in RPG H
FSCREEN O F 80 80 CRT
C EXCPT
OSCREEN E 1
O 12 'HELLO WORLD!'
“Hello World” in SQL :“Hello World” in SQL CREATE TABLE HELLO (HELLO CHAR(12))
UPDATE HELLO
SET HELLO = 'HELLO WORLD!'
SELECT * FROM HELLO
Scripting Languages :Scripting Languages History
Countless “shell languages” and “command languages” for operating systems and configurable applications echo "Hello, World!" on OpenStack
show message box
put "Hello World!" into message box
end OpenStack puts "Hello World " print "Hello, World!\n"; Unix shell (ca. 1971) developed as user shell and scripting tool
HyperTalk (1987) was developed at Apple to script HyperCard stacks
TCL (1990) developed as embedding language and scripting language for X windows applications (via Tk)
Perl (~1990) became de facto web scripting language
Scripting Languages ... :Scripting Languages ... Innovations
Pipes and filters (Unix shell)
Generalized embedding/command languages (TCL)
Successes
Unix Shell, awk, emacs, HyperTalk, AppleTalk, TCL, Python, Perl, VisualBasic ...
What you should know! :What you should know! What, exactly, is a programming language?
How do compilers and interpreters differ?
Why was FORTRAN developed?
What were the main achievements of ALGOL 60?
Why do we call C a “Third Generation Language”?
What is a “Fourth Generation Language”?
Can you answer these questions? :Can you answer these questions? Why are there so many programming languages?
Why are FORTRAN and COBOL still important programming languages?
Which language should you use to implement a spelling checker?
A filter to translate upper-to-lower case?
A theorem prover?
An address database?
An expert system?
A game server for initiating chess games on the internet?
A user interface for a network chess client?
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