Programming language theory

Programming language theory (PLT) is a branch of computer science that deals with the design, implementation, analysis, characterization, and classification of programming languages and their individual features.

Description

It falls within the discipline of computer science, both depending on and affecting mathematics, software engineering and linguistics.

See also

• Abstract syntax
• Abstract syntax tree
• Computation
• Computer program
• Computer programming
• Computer science
• Linguistics
• Programming language
• Programming paradigm
• Semantics (computer science)
• Software engineering
• Syntax (computer languages)

External links

• Programming language theory @ Wikipedia