How long does it take to read Types and Programming Languages?
Benjamin C. Pierce
Types and Programming Languages by Benjamin C. Pierce takes about 11 hours 50 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 11 hours 50 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2002. 645 pages, about 177,375 words.
24 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 19 hours 43 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 11 hours 50 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 23 minutes |
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About the book
A type system is a syntactic method for automatically checking the absence of certain erroneous behaviors by classifying program phrases according to the kinds of values they compute. The study of type systems--and of programming languages from a type-theoretic perspective -- -has important applications in software engineering, language design, high-performance compilers, and security. This text provides a comprehensive introduction both to type systems in computer science and to the basic theory of programming languages. The approach is pragmatic and operational; each new concept is motivated by programming examples and the more theoretical sections are driven by the needs of implementations. Each chapter is accompanied by numerous exercises and solutions, as well as a running implementation, available via the Web. Dependencies between chapters are explicitly identified, allowing readers to choose a variety of paths through the material. The core topics include the untyped lambda-calculus, simple type systems, type reconstruction, universal and existential polymorphism, subtyping, bounded quantification, recursive types, kinds, and type operators. Extended case studies develop a variety of approaches to modeling the features of object-oriented languages.
Subjects: Programming Languages, Langages de programmation, COMPUTERS, Programmeertalen
