Textbooks
Michael L. Scott. Programming Language Pragmatics, 2nd Edition. Morgan Kauffman, 2006, ISBN 978-0-12-633951-2
selected
chapters from
Ken Slonneger and Barry Kurtz. Syntax and Semantics of
Programming Languages, 1995 http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~slonnegr/plf/Book
Required Software
Java J2 SE 6 (available from http://java.sun.com)
SML (available from http://www.smlnj.org)
ASM (an open source java bytecode manipulation framework available from http://asm.objectweb.org)