On and off, I've tended to read quite a bit. So, I thought I'd put up some reviews of books as I read them. In time, I may go back and add reviews of some of the books I read in the past. Not massively exciting, but I suppose it may be of interest to someone, somewhere (perhaps).
Programming Language Pragmatics - Michael Scott
This is an odd book. Its intended niche is to fill in all the details about compilers missed by other compiler books. The result is a kind of general book which is a jack of all trades and master of none. It covers topics ranging from RISC assembly through to coroutines through to message passing, but it's stretched out over so many topics that it feels surprisingly lightweight. It might make sense as an early undergrad compiler text, or an accompaniment to the 'Comparative Programming Languages' course that I did as an undergrad, but I found it rather unsatisfying.
Permalink. Posted 22:40, Tue, 28 Sep 2004.
There is also a complete index of the books.
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