This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2002, held in Grenoble, France, in April 2002. The 21 revised full papers presented together with an abstract of an invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 73 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on typing and modularity, programming paradigms, lambda calculus, program analysis applications, program analysis principles, and verification and analysis of distributed programs.