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This chapter introduces the approach taken and the plan followed in this book. We show how to represent arithmetic expressions and other program fragments as data structures in F# as well as Java, and how to compute with such program fragments. We also introduce various basic concepts of programming languages.
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Sestoft, P. (2012). Introduction. In: Programming Language Concepts. Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science, vol 50. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4156-3_1
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