Dahl and my mother could not be more different as writers and as humans, but they had in common a profound trust and affection for their child readers. Consistent with that posture, I would say that kids intuit and accept better than adults that language is constantly in flux, as are human sensibilities. Not condescending to young readers also means trusting that they can glean meaning from a textual whole, not just from specific words.

It all depends how deep you want to go, and how much you already know. For a beginner Winksel's book is really nice, but yes, it's not introducing you to the state of the art in semantics as it was written about 20 years ago. Nevertheless it's still a good first introduction to the subject. It might also be worthwhile pointing out that T. Nipkow has formalised a substantial chunk of Winskel's book in Isabelle/HOL, see here. So if you want to learn using interactive proof assistants together with understanding the semantics of programming languages, you have a lot of coherent material to draw on.

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Books like Pierce's TAPL are very nice, but focus narrowly on one aspect of programming languages, namely types, as important as that is. I would not recommend it as a first introduction to the general area of programming languages, but it is mandatory to read for anyone who wants to learn about types.

Truth be told, I think there's currently no up-to-date introductory book on language semantics that reflects the substantial progress the last decade has seen, with its decisive shift away from denotational methods and sequential computation to concurrency (process calculi and game semantics), axiomatics semantics and the use of interactive proof assistants in verification.

which can be seen as 'Winskel in Isabelle/HOL'. It's an introduction to thesemantics of programming languages (primarily operational andaxiomatic) but unlike previous pen-and-paper-based approaches, thisbook expresses all its mathematics in Isabelle/HOL. In other words,it's at the same time a book about theorem proving.

I would divide the books on programming language semantics into two classes: those that focus on modelling programming language concepts and those that focus on the foundational aspects of semantics. There is no reason a book can't do both. But, usually, there is only so much you can put into a book, and the authors also have their own predispositions about what is important.

Winskel's book, already mentioned, does a bit of both the aspects. And, it is a good beginner's book. An equally good, perhaps even better, book is the one I started with: Gordon's Denotational description of programming languages. This was my first book on semantics, which I read soon after I finished my undergraduate work. I have to say it gave me a firm grounding in semantics and I never had to wonder how denotational semantics differs from operational semantics or axiomatic semantics etc. This book will remain my all-time favourite on denotational semantics.

Tennent's Semantics of programming languages, which is a more-or-less uptodate book on the semantics of imperative programming languages. It is easy to read. However, it tends to be abstract in later parts of the book and you might have to struggle to see why things are being done in a particular way.

Reynolds's Theories of programming languages. Anybody specializing in semantics should definitely read this book. It is after all by Reynolds. (David Schmidt once remarked to me, "even if Reynolds is reading out the morning newspaper to you, you want to listen carefully, because you might learn something important"!) It has good coverage of both the modelling aspects and foundational aspects.

The best books on foundational aspects are Gunter's (which I regard as a graduate text book), and Mitchell's (which is good reference book to have on your bookshelf because it is quite comprehensive).

I really enjoyed reading Winskel when I was taking the undergrad course on semantics. I can't tell if it's dated, though, since I don't do research in this field. A plus of Winskel is that you can find it translated in other languages than English.

For a further reading, more at a graduate level, I'd suggest John Mitchell's books Foundations for Programming Languages and Concepts in Programming Languages. If you read only the first chapters, I guess they also meet your requirement of conciseness.

Second, Amazon offers Types and Programming Languages and Basic Category Theory for Computer Scientists along with this book. On another topic Dave Clarke offers these books as excellent ones on "Type Systems and Programming Language Semantics." Again, I'm not an expert, but those might be useful for you.

Ebooks are static in terms of language so you cannot translate an ebook on the fly with a software setting. If you purchased a Spanish language ebook, it is only in Spanish. Many ebook stores do offer alternate language downloads when purchasing if that author/publisher offers alternate language versions of their ebook.

Idk how we can answer this for you. I personally don't really like programming books. I haven't bought or read one in years and I haven't had any issues learning languages without them. That being said, I have heard good things about Rust for Rustaceans. I have not read it though.

A proper answer would be an opinion from someone who has read both the popular Rust books and the online docs and drawn some conclusion whether the former are "worth it" - whether they give one someone the docs (or blogs, etc.) don't.

My favorite Rust books after you read The Rust Book online, is Zero To Production In Rust by Luca Palmieri, great for backend web work, and Rust For Rustaceans by Jon Gjengset, great deep dive into Rust. You can't go wrong with these.

Don't waste time and money on books, especially not in dead tree format. If you are as experienced as you say, then you'll have no problem building actual projects in the language and reading the documentation/googling solutions to common problems. You can always post your code here too, and get useful feedback from multiple people.

Books get outdated quickly and are annoying to learn programming from (nobody wants code on paper except for the very worst kind of university exams); they are also disproportionately expensive, at least in the US where most programming material is coming from (100-200$ each? really?). I stopped buying programming books around 15 years ago and never regretted it.

But books and courses teach valuable lessons that are really hard to learn on your own. I have never spent $100+ on a programming book (except maybe years ago at university which is of course a scam). But Rust books for $30 or $40 USD is well worth the investment. They will be valuable for several years at least.

I'm very much in favour of books. Having someone knowledgeable and experienced package up and present much of what you need to know on a topic in a nice, self consistent, clearly delineated, self-contained lump is wonderful. Much better than reading through a reference book or desperately search the net for disconnected snippets and clues.

Having said that, in the programming language world, or computing in general, there has always been piles of "pulp" books written. Made impressive by their sheer size and weight. Quickly churned out to capitalise on whatever the latest buzzword technology of the day is. They have often been pretty much useless.

I generally don't like programming books, even well regarded famous ones like SICP or Design Patterns (I'm sure lumping those together has ruffled some feathers!) seem, frankly, pretty dumb at best and dangerously misleading at worst.

But there seems to be a sweet spot like Scott Myers' Effective C++ books, where the advice is specific enough to a language or environment to be technically founded but general enough for it to be useful for most any program you make: the already mentioned Jon Gjengset's book "Rust for Rustaceans" is, unsurprisingly for anyone who's watched his streams, excellently written and highly informative, and fits neatly into that class of book.

Perhaps even more specifically focused books that are specific to your field could be useful, but honestly unless you're essentially learning a mathematical field (eg linear optimization, fluid dynamics, game theory, etc) you're probably better served by more up to date web resources, which often also get to the point a lot quicker!

Books have a lot more writing than online documentation. They can cover things like motivation, "why things are the way they are", and aid you in developing mental models.

A lot of online documentation suffers from putting everything at the same level of importance while books can quickly direct you to the core concepts that you should learn first.

But, code in books is outdated before the book is even published.

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