Lecture 1 The Programming Language Landscape

• Why Study Languages?
• History of Language Development (How'd we get here?) [Tu 8 Oct]
• Language Evaluation Criteria (Is it good?)
• Language Influences

• Hardware/Software Equivalence
• Interpreters vs. Translators (compilers)
• Software Development as Domain Language Design
• Language Execution Models
• Binding Times
• Language (programming) Paradigms