programming languages reference books -

• Michael L. Scott, Programming Languages Pragmatics, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, October 1999, ISBN 1-55860-442-1.

• Thomas J. Bergin and Richard G. Gibson, History of Programming Languages, Addison Wesley, 1996, ISBN 0-201-59065-1.

• Doris Appleby and Julius J. VandeKopple, Programming Languages: Paradigm and Practice, Second Edition, McGraw-Hill, 1997, ISBN 0-07-005315-4.
• M. Ben-Ari, Understanding Programming Languages, John Wiley & Sons, 1996, ISBN 0-471-95846-8.
• Henri E. Bal and Dick Grune, Programming Language Essentials, Addison-Wesley, 1994, ISBN 0-201-63179-2.
• Robert G. Clark, Comparative Programming Languages, Third Edition, Addison Wesley, 1988, ISBN 0-201-71012-9.
• Herbert L. Dershem and Michael J. Jipping, Programming Languages: Structures and Models, Second Edition, PWS Publishing Company, 1995, ISBN 0-534-94740-9.
• Raphael A. Finkel, Advanced Programming Language Design, Addison-Wesley, 1996, ISBN 0-8053-1192-0.
• Alice E. Fischer and Frances S. Grodzinsky, The Anatomy of Programming Languages, Prentice Hall, 1993, ISBN 0-13-035155-5.
• Daniel P. Friedman, Mitchell Wand, and Christopher T. Haynes, Essentials of Programming Languages, MIT Press, 1992, ISBN 0-07-022443-9.
• Linda Weiser Friedman, Comparative Programming Languages, Prentice Hall, 1991, ISBN 0-13-155482-4.
• Carlo Ghezzi and Mehdi Jazayeri, Programming Language Concepts, Third Edition, John Wiley & Sons, 1998, ISBN 0-471-10426-4.
• C.A.R. Hoare and J.C. Shepherdson, eds., Mathematical Logic and Programming Languages, Prentice Hall International Series in Computer Science, 1985, ISBN 0-13-561465-1.
• Ellis Horowitz, Fundamentals of Programming Languages, Computer Science Press, 1983, ISBN 0-914894-37-4.
• Ellis Horowitz, Programming Languages: A Grand Tour, Third Edition, Computer Science Press, 1987, ISBN 0-88175-142-1.
• Samuel N. Kamin, Programming Languages: An Interpreter-Based Approach, Addison Wesley, 1990, ISBN 0-201-06824-9.
• Barbara Liskov with John Guttag, Program Development in Java: Abstraction, Specification, and Object-Oriented Design, Addison Wesley, 2001, ISBN 0-201-65768-6.
• Kenneth C. Louden, Programming Languages: Principles and Practice, PWS Publishing Company, 1993, ISBN 0-534-93277-0.
• Bruce J. MacLennan, Principles of Programming Languages: Design, Evaluation, and Implementation, Third Edition, Oxford, 1999, ISBN 0-19-511306-3.
• Michael Marcotty and Henry Ledgard, Programming Language Landscape, Second Edition, SRA Computer Science Series, 1986, ISBN 0-574-21945-5.
• Herbert G. Mayer, Programming Languages, MacMillan Pub. Co., 1988, ISBN 0-02-378295-1.
• Bertrand Meyer, Introduction to the Theory of Programming Languages, Prentice Hall International Series in Computer Science, 1990, ISBN 0-13-498510-9.
• Terrence W. Pratt, Marvin V. Zelkowitz, Programming Languages: Design and Implementation, Third Edition, Prentice Hall, 1996, ISBN 0-13-678012-1.
• Robert W. Sebesta, Concepts of Programming Languages, 5/e, Addison Wesley, 2002, ISBN 0-201-75295-6.
• Ravi Sethi, Programming Languages - Concepts&Constructs, 2nd Edition, Addison Wesley, 1996, ISBN 0-201-59065-4.
• Ryan Stansifer, The Study of Programming Languages, Prentice Hall, 1995, ISBN 0-13-726936-6.
• R. D. Tennent, Principles of Programming Languages, Prentice Hall International Series in Computer Science, 1981, ISBN 0-13-709873-1.
• Allen B. Tucker, Programming Languages, Second Edition, McGraw-Hill, 1986, ISBN 0-07-065416-6.