Formal Semantics of Programming Languages

It's better than Harper's glorified lecture note compendium

Very good! The best book on this topic.

good, new book

Bought this book for a graduate PL class. For the most part, the book covers basic semantics and syntax of PL, but does't provide enough explanations and examples so it's difficult to understand for a PL beginner!

I had to get this book for my advanced programming languages, While the content were well-placed , you always have to keep up with different notations that pop up now and then. If I didn't had to spend so much time understanding all the different symbols in book it would've been a very good book.

if you already know these topics this might be a good book, but for those of us first learning it, this book is terrible, way to breif, and it assumes you know way more than you really do

not for beginner does not mean this is a bad book. seems a 5-star

El libro es el correcto. Una buena ayuda para empezar los estudios de lenguajes de programación.

Un très bon livre pour tout informaticien qui souhaite avoir les bases de la sémantique des langages de programmation. Un peu ancien mais le sujet ne vieillit pas au contraire il revient d'actualité avec les méthodes formelles.

An excellent text about a complex yet fundamental issue in Language Engineering. A good reference book to have in your library.