Concepts Of Programming Languages
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Author: Sebesta, Robert W.
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There are many features a perfect programming language should have. There are many different criteria to judge programming languages.
- Programming languages with large number of features or constructs is very difficult to learn for a programmer.
- So, what programmers do is they learn only the subset of the language which is required for the current project.
- But this causes a problem in readability as if they are given someone else's code to maintain, and that person had learnt and used different subset of the same language then the our programmer will be in problem.
Also in some languages one specific operation can be done in many ways...
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