Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Essentials of Programming Languages (MIT Press, 2008. 3rd edition, ISBN 0-262-06279-8) is a book by Daniel P. Friedman, Mitchell Wand and Christopher T. Haynes on programming languages. EoPL is a text book that surveys the principles of programming languages from an operational perspective. It starts with an interpreter in Scheme for a simple functional core language similar to the lambda calculus and then systematically adds constructs. For each addition, for example, variable assignment or thread-like control, the book illustrates an increase in expressive power of the programming language and a demand for new constructs for the formulation of a direct interpreter. The book also demonstrates that systematic transformations, say store-passing style or continuation-passing style can eliminate certain constructs from the language in which the interpreter is formulated.

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