Re:Kneejerk reaction (Score 1)

I'm going to partly retract what I sad above now that I've read more. While Programming Language Pragmatics may cover more ground, a lot of it is just trivial mention. This book sticks to the core of illustrating the concepts of modern programing, and fully exploring their possibilities. It's a different kind of book, and doesn't address the implimenters view as other "programing languages" books do. So far I'm really enjoying it.