The seventh edition evolved from the sixth through serveral kinds of changes. To maintain the currency of the material, some of the discussion of older programming languages has been replaced by material on newer languages. For example, sections were added to both Chapters 1 and 2 that discuss markup/programming hybird languages, using XSLT and JSP as examples. A section on program proofs using axiomatic semantics was added, including a new proof. The section on recursive descent parsing in Chaper 4 was strengthened by adding a new parsing routine and including a trace of a complete parse using the recursive descent algorithm. Material has been added in serveral places to in troduce the most interesting features of Java 5.0, including its nwe iterative statement its enumeration class, and its generics. Finally, minor changes, primarily to improve clarity, were made to a large number of sections of the book.
Chapter 1 Preliminaries
Chapter 2 Evolution of the Major Programming Languages
Chapter 3 Describing Syntax and Semantics
Chapter 4 lexical and Syntax Analysis
Chapter 5 Names, Bindings, Type Checking, and Scopes
Chapter 6 Data Types
Chapter 7 Expressions and Assignment Statements
Chapter 8 Statement-Level Control Structures
Chapter 9 Subprograms
Chapter 10 Implementing Subprograms
etc.