The Formal Semantics Of Programming Languages

Author : Glynn Winskel
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1993-02-05
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0262731037

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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 : Randall Rustin
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Computer programming
ISBN : UCAL:B3773745

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Formal Semantics of Programming Languages by Randall Rustin Pdf

Author : Carl A. Gunter
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 45,7 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 WINSKELL
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:494830683

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Author : Kenneth Slonneger,Barry L. Kurtz
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Longman
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 46,7 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 : Hanne Riis Nielson,Flemming Nielson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,7 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 : Matthew Hennessy
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 51,5 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 : Jim Alves-Foss
Publisher : Springer
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003-07-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540487371

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Formal Syntax and Semantics of Java by Jim Alves-Foss Pdf

Java, undoubtedly, has its roots in embedded systems and the Web. Nevertheless, it is a fully functional high-level programming language that can provide users with a wide range of functionality and versatility. This thoroughly cross-reviewed state-of-the-art survey is devoted to the study of the syntax and semantics of Java from a formal-methods point of view. It consists of the following chapters by leading researchers: Formal Grammar for Java; Describing the Semantics of Java and Proving Type Soundness; Proving Java Type Soundness; Machine-Checking the Java Specification: Proving Type-Safety; An Event-Based Structural Operational Semantics of Multi-Threaded Java Dynamic Denotational Semantics of Java; A Programmer's Reduction Semantics for Classes and Mixins; A Formal Specification of Java Virtual Machine Instructions for Objects, Methods and Subroutines; The Operational Semantics of a Java Secure Processor; A Programmer Friendly Modular Definition of the Semantics of Java.

Author : Therese Hardin,Mathieu Jaume,Francois Pessaux,Veronique Viguie Donzeau-Gouge
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 52,8 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 : Gilles Dowek,Jean-Jacques Lévy
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-09
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780857290762

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Introduction to the Theory of Programming Languages by Gilles Dowek,Jean-Jacques Lévy Pdf

The design and implementation of programming languages, from Fortran and Cobol to Caml and Java, has been one of the key developments in the management of ever more complex computerized systems. Introduction to the Theory of Programming Languages gives the reader the means to discover the tools to think, design, and implement these languages. It proposes a unified vision of the different formalisms that permit definition of a programming language: small steps operational semantics, big steps operational semantics, and denotational semantics, emphasising that all seek to define a relation between three objects: a program, an input value, and an output value. These formalisms are illustrated by presenting the semantics of some typical features of programming languages: functions, recursivity, assignments, records, objects, ... showing that the study of programming languages does not consist of studying languages one after another, but is organized around the features that are present in these various languages. The study of these features leads to the development of evaluators, interpreters and compilers, and also type inference algorithms, for small languages.

Author : J. M. Spivey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1988-03-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0521334292

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Understanding Z by J. M. Spivey Pdf

The Z notation is a language for expressing mathematical specifications of computing systems. By providing a formal semantics for Z, this book justifies the claim that Z is a precise specification language, and provides a standard framework for understanding Z specifications.

Author : Kim B. Bruce
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 55,9 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 : Robert Harper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-04
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781107150300

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Practical Foundations for Programming Languages by Robert Harper Pdf

This book unifies a broad range of programming language concepts under the framework of type systems and structural operational semantics.

Author : M.J.C. Gordon
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,8 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 : Daniel P. Friedman,Mitchell Wand
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262062794

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Essentials of Programming Languages, third edition by Daniel P. Friedman,Mitchell Wand Pdf

A new edition of a textbook that provides students with a deep, working understanding of the essential concepts of programming languages, completely revised, with significant new material. This book provides students with a deep, working understanding of the essential concepts of programming languages. Most of these essentials relate to the semantics, or meaning, of program elements, and the text uses interpreters (short programs that directly analyze an abstract representation of the program text) to express the semantics of many essential language elements in a way that is both clear and executable. The approach is both analytical and hands-on. The book provides views of programming languages using widely varying levels of abstraction, maintaining a clear connection between the high-level and low-level views. Exercises are a vital part of the text and are scattered throughout; the text explains the key concepts, and the exercises explore alternative designs and other issues. The complete Scheme code for all the interpreters and analyzers in the book can be found online through The MIT Press web site. For this new edition, each chapter has been revised and many new exercises have been added. Significant additions have been made to the text, including completely new chapters on modules and continuation-passing style. Essentials of Programming Languages can be used for both graduate and undergraduate courses, and for continuing education courses for programmers.