Semantics Of Programming Languages

Author : Carl A. Gunter
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Programming languages (Electronic computers)
ISBN : 0262570955

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Semantics of Programming Languages by Carl A. Gunter Pdf

Semantics of Programming Languages exposes the basic motivations and philosophy underlying the applications of semantic techniques in computer science. It introduces the mathematical theory of programming languages with an emphasis on higher-order functions and type systems. Designed as a text for upper-level and graduate-level students, the mathematically sophisticated approach will also prove useful to professionals who want an easily referenced description of fundamental results and calculi. Basic connections between computational behavior, denotational semantics, and the equational logic of functional programs are thoroughly and rigorously developed. Topics covered include models of types, operational semantics, category theory, domain theory, fixed point (denotational). semantics, full abstraction and other semantic correspondence criteria, types and evaluation, type checking and inference, parametric polymorphism, and subtyping. All topics are treated clearly and in depth, with complete proofs for the major results and numerous exercises.

Author : Glynn Winskel
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1993-02-05
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0262731037

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The Formal Semantics of Programming Languages by Glynn Winskel Pdf

The Formal Semantics of Programming Languages provides the basic mathematical techniques necessary for those who are beginning a study of the semantics and logics of programming languages. These techniques will allow students to invent, formalize, and justify rules with which to reason about a variety of programming languages. Although the treatment is elementary, several of the topics covered are drawn from recent research, including the vital area of concurency. The book contains many exercises ranging from simple to miniprojects.Starting with basic set theory, structural operational semantics is introduced as a way to define the meaning of programming languages along with associated proof techniques. Denotational and axiomatic semantics are illustrated on a simple language of while-programs, and fall proofs are given of the equivalence of the operational and denotational semantics and soundness and relative completeness of the axiomatic semantics. A proof of Godel's incompleteness theorem, which emphasizes the impossibility of achieving a fully complete axiomatic semantics, is included. It is supported by an appendix providing an introduction to the theory of computability based on while-programs. Following a presentation of domain theory, the semantics and methods of proof for several functional languages are treated. The simplest language is that of recursion equations with both call-by-value and call-by-name evaluation. This work is extended to lan guages with higher and recursive types, including a treatment of the eager and lazy lambda-calculi. Throughout, the relationship between denotational and operational semantics is stressed, and the proofs of the correspondence between the operation and denotational semantics are provided. The treatment of recursive types - one of the more advanced parts of the book - relies on the use of information systems to represent domains. The book concludes with a chapter on parallel programming languages, accompanied by a discussion of methods for specifying and verifying nondeterministic and parallel programs.

Author : Maribel Fernández
Publisher : Springer
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781447163688

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Programming Languages and Operational Semantics by Maribel Fernández Pdf

This book provides an introduction to the essential concepts in programming languages, using operational semantics techniques. It presents alternative programming language paradigms and gives an in-depth analysis of the most significant constructs in modern imperative, functional and logic programming languages. The book is designed to accompany lectures on programming language design for undergraduate students. Each chapter includes exercises which provide the opportunity to apply the concepts and techniques presented.

Author : Therese Hardin,Mathieu Jaume,Francois Pessaux,Veronique Viguie Donzeau-Gouge
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781786305305

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Concepts and Semantics of Programming Languages 1 by Therese Hardin,Mathieu Jaume,Francois Pessaux,Veronique Viguie Donzeau-Gouge Pdf

This book – the first of two volumes – explores the syntactical constructs of the most common programming languages, and sheds a mathematical light on their semantics, while also providing an accurate presentation of the material aspects that interfere with coding. Concepts and Semantics of Programming Languages 1 is dedicated to functional and imperative features. Included is the formal study of the semantics of typing and execution; their acquisition is facilitated by implementation into OCaml and Python, as well as by worked examples. Data representation is considered in detail: endianness, pointers, memory management, union types and pattern-matching, etc., with examples in OCaml, C and C++. The second volume introduces a specific model for studying modular and object features and uses this model to present Ada and OCaml modules, and subsequently Java, C++, OCaml and Python classes and objects. This book is intended not only for computer science students and teachers but also seasoned programmers, who will find a guide to reading reference manuals and the foundations of program verification.

Author : Kenneth Slonneger,Barry L. Kurtz
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Longman
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39015034297906

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Formal Syntax and Semantics of Programming Languages by Kenneth Slonneger,Barry L. Kurtz Pdf

With this book, readers with a basic grounding in discreet mathematics will be able to understand the practical applications of these difficult concepts. The book presents the typically difficult subject of "formal methods" in an informal, easy-to-follow manner. A "laboratory component" is integrated throughout the text.

Author : Randall Rustin
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Computer programming
ISBN : UCAL:B3773745

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Formal Semantics of Programming Languages by Randall Rustin Pdf

Author : David Anthony Watt,Muffy Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39015022047651

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Programming Language Syntax and Semantics by David Anthony Watt,Muffy Thomas Pdf

Contains a treatment of syntax and semantics, and coverage of several complementary semantic methods, with emphasis on using formal specification. There is brief coverage of underlying theory, and an introduction to action semantics - a new method of specifying semantics.

Author : Matthew Hennessy
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Programming languages (Electronic computers)
ISBN : UCSC:32106009399251

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The Semantics of Programming Languages by Matthew Hennessy Pdf

Arithmetic expressions; A simple functional language; More languages; Computation semantics; Parallelism; Bibliography; Index.

Author : Kim B. Bruce
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Computers
ISBN : 026202523X

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Foundations of Object-oriented Languages by Kim B. Bruce Pdf

A presentation of the formal underpinnings of object-oriented programming languages.

Author : R. D. Tennent
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0138055998

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Semantics of Programming Languages by R. D. Tennent Pdf

This comprehensive text introduces the analysis of the semantics of programming languages and programming logics. It discusses denotational, operational, and axiomatic approaches and the relations between them in a unified framework. Organized around analysis of three languages - the simple imperative language of while commands, a simple applicative language based on the typed lambda calculus, and an Algol-like language which is an extension of the simple languages, the text discusses syntactic and semantic methods appropriate to typed languages. There also self-contained introductions to natural deduction, domain theory, and category theory, and a discussion of modern techniques of possible worlds.

Author : Hanne Riis Nielson,Flemming Nielson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781846286926

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Semantics with Applications: An Appetizer by Hanne Riis Nielson,Flemming Nielson Pdf

Semantics will play an important role in the future development of software systems and domain-specific languages. This book provides a needed introductory presentation of the fundamental ideas behind these approaches, stresses their relationship by formulating and proving the relevant theorems, and illustrates the applications of semantics in computer science. Historically important application areas are presented together with some exciting potential applications. The text investigates the relationship between various methods and describes some of the main ideas used, illustrating these by means of interesting applications. The book provides a rigorous introduction to the main approaches to formal semantics of programming languages.

Author : M.J.C. Gordon
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781461262282

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The Denotational Description of Programming Languages by M.J.C. Gordon Pdf

This book explains how to formally describe programming languages using the techniques of denotational semantics. The presentation is designed primarily for computer science students rather than for (say) mathematicians. No knowledge of the theory of computation is required, but it would help to have some acquaintance with high level programming languages. The selection of material is based on an undergraduate semantics course taught at Edinburgh University for the last few years. Enough descriptive techniques are covered to handle all of ALGOL 50, PASCAL and other similar languages. Denotational semantics combines a powerful and lucid descriptive notation (due mainly to Strachey) with an elegant and rigorous theory (due to Scott). This book provides an introduction to the descriptive techniques without going into the background mathematics at all. In some ways this is very unsatisfactory; reliable reasoning about semantics (e. g. correctness proofs) cannot be done without knowing the underlying model and so learning semantic notation without its model theory could be argued to be pointless. My own feeling is that there is plenty to be gained from acquiring a purely intuitive understanding of semantic concepts together with manipulative competence in the notation. For these equip one with a powerful conceptua1 framework-a framework enabling one to visualize languages and constructs in an elegant and machine-independent way. Perhaps a good analogy is with calculus: for many practical purposes (e. g. engineering calculations) an intuitive understanding of how to differentiate and integrate is all that is needed.

Author : Tobias Nipkow,Gerwin Klein
Publisher : Springer
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-03
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319105420

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Concrete Semantics by Tobias Nipkow,Gerwin Klein Pdf

Part I of this book is a practical introduction to working with the Isabelle proof assistant. It teaches you how to write functional programs and inductive definitions and how to prove properties about them in Isabelle’s structured proof language. Part II is an introduction to the semantics of imperative languages with an emphasis on applications like compilers and program analysers. The distinguishing feature is that all the mathematics has been formalised in Isabelle and much of it is executable. Part I focusses on the details of proofs in Isabelle; Part II can be read even without familiarity with Isabelle’s proof language, all proofs are described in detail but informally. The book teaches the reader the art of precise logical reasoning and the practical use of a proof assistant as a surgical tool for formal proofs about computer science artefacts. In this sense it represents a formal approach to computer science, not just semantics. The Isabelle formalisation, including the proofs and accompanying slides, are freely available online, and the book is suitable for graduate students, advanced undergraduate students, and researchers in theoretical computer science and logic.

Author : Benjamin C. Pierce
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262303828

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Types and Programming Languages by Benjamin C. Pierce Pdf

A comprehensive introduction to type systems and programming languages. 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.

Author : Ernest G. Manes,Michael A. Arbib
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781461249627

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Algebraic Approaches to Program Semantics by Ernest G. Manes,Michael A. Arbib Pdf

In the 1930s, mathematical logicians studied the notion of "effective comput ability" using such notions as recursive functions, A-calculus, and Turing machines. The 1940s saw the construction of the first electronic computers, and the next 20 years saw the evolution of higher-level programming languages in which programs could be written in a convenient fashion independent (thanks to compilers and interpreters) of the architecture of any specific machine. The development of such languages led in turn to the general analysis of questions of syntax, structuring strings of symbols which could count as legal programs, and semantics, determining the "meaning" of a program, for example, as the function it computes in transforming input data to output results. An important approach to semantics, pioneered by Floyd, Hoare, and Wirth, is called assertion semantics: given a specification of which assertions (preconditions) on input data should guarantee that the results satisfy desired assertions (postconditions) on output data, one seeks a logical proof that the program satisfies its specification. An alternative approach, pioneered by Scott and Strachey, is called denotational semantics: it offers algebraic techniques for characterizing the denotation of (i. e. , the function computed by) a program-the properties of the program can then be checked by direct comparison of the denotation with the specification. This book is an introduction to denotational semantics. More specifically, we introduce the reader to two approaches to denotational semantics: the order semantics of Scott and Strachey and our own partially additive semantics.