From: "Jörg W Mittag" Date: 2009-05-17T08:05:04+09:00 Subject: Re: Any current preprocessor/Ruby language add-ons? J�rg W Mittag wrote: > Robert Klemme wrote: >> On 12.05.2009 18:47, C. Dagnon wrote: >>> Which is partly why I was asking about other groups, meta-computer >>> language groups in particular because I'm pretty fed up with limitations >>> I've experienced in each of the existing languages I've tried. But I'm >>> not experienced with the vernacular enough to know what the N-axis(es?) >>> are of possible language/environment features. Wikipedia doesn't quite >>> help either - their comparison has several useful points, yet doesn't >>> quite compare their gestalts as I would like to. Perhaps because they >>> want it to fit in thin tables? >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_programming_languages >> Maybe you get yourself a textbook about computer languages and one on >> computational theory. :-) >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_theory > When it comes to programming languages and programming paradigms you > certainly can't go wrong with > > Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming > Peter van Roy and Seif Haridi > ISBN: 978-0262220699 > > > > > or > > Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation > Shriram Krishnamurthi > I *knew* I forgot one: Essentials of Programming Languages Daniel P. Friedman and Mitchell Wand ISBN: 978-0-262-06279-4 Also, Lambda the Ultimate (), or LtU as it's known among its members (named after the famous and groundbreaking "LAMBDA papers" series of papers by the inventors of Scheme, with titles such as "LAMBDA: The Ultimate GOTO" or "LAMBDA: The Ultimate Opcode"), is *the* online community for discussing all aspects of Programming Language Theory (or PLT, as they commonly call it). jwm