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Pratt, Terrence Wendall was born on March 9, 1940 in Minneapolis. Son of Wendall Ballou and Beth (Meyer) Pratt.
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Exceptionally comprehensive in approach, this book explores the major issues in both design and implementation of modern programming languages and provides a basic introduction to the underlying theoretical models on which these languages are based. The emphasis throughout is on fundamental concepts—readers learn important ideas, not minor language differences--but several languages are highlighted in sufficient detail to enable readers to write programs that demonstrate the relationship between a source program and its execution behavior--e.g., C, C++, JAVA, ML, LISP, Prolog, Smalltalk, Postscript, HTML, PERL, FORTRAN, Ada, COBOL, BASIC SNOBOL4, PL/I, Pascal. Begins with a background review of programming languages and the underlying hardware that will execute the given program; then covers the underlying grammatical model for programming languages and their compilers (elementary data types, data structures and encapsulation, inheritance, statements, procedure invocation, storage management, distributed processing, and network programming). Includes an advanced chapter on language semantics--program verification, denotational semantics, and the lambda calculus. For computer engineers and others interested in programming language designs.
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Pratt, Terrence Wendall was born on March 9, 1940 in Minneapolis. Son of Wendall Ballou and Beth (Meyer) Pratt.
Assistant professor, Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1965-1966; assistant professor, University Texas, Austin, 1966-1971; associate professor, University Texas, Austin, 1972-1977; associate professor, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1977-1981; professor, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1982-1986; research professor, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1986-1992; director Institute Parallel Computation, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1989-1990; associate director Center Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences,, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland., 1992-1994; acting director, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland., 1993-1994; senior scientist, since 1996. Consultant Institute Computer Applications in Science and Engineering/National Aeronautics and Space Administration Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia, 1978-1992.
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Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Association for Computing Machinery, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
Married Margaret Ruth Hammond. Married second, Barbara Anne Kraft. Children: Kirsten Elizabeth, Robert Randall, Laurelyn Kathleen.