Formal Semantics Of Programming Languages

Author : Glynn Winskel
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262731034
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Formal Semantics of Programming Languages written by Glynn Winskel and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1993-02-05 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Carl A. Gunter
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262570954
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Semantics of Programming Languages written by Carl A. Gunter and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Randall Rustin
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Formal Semantics of Programming Languages written by Randall Rustin and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1972 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kenneth Slonneger
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Longman
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Formal Syntax and Semantics of Programming Languages written by Kenneth Slonneger and published by Addison-Wesley Longman. This book was released on 1995 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Glynn WINSKELL
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Formal Semantics of Programming Languages written by Glynn WINSKELL and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hanne Riis Nielson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1846286921
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Semantics with Applications: An Appetizer written by Hanne Riis Nielson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-04-18 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Semantics of Programming Languages written by Matthew Hennessy and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 1990 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arithmetic expressions; A simple functional language; More languages; Computation semantics; Parallelism; Bibliography; Index.

Author : Jim Alves-Foss
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540661581
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Formal Syntax and Semantics of Java written by Jim Alves-Foss and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1999-06-09 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : M.J.C. Gordon
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461262283
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Denotational Description of Programming Languages written by M.J.C. Gordon and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Jan van Eijck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139490907
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Computational Semantics with Functional Programming written by Jan van Eijck and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-23 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computational semantics is the art and science of computing meaning in natural language. The meaning of a sentence is derived from the meanings of the individual words in it, and this process can be made so precise that it can be implemented on a computer. Designed for students of linguistics, computer science, logic and philosophy, this comprehensive text shows how to compute meaning using the functional programming language Haskell. It deals with both denotational meaning (where meaning comes from knowing the conditions of truth in situations), and operational meaning (where meaning is an instruction for performing cognitive action). Including a discussion of recent developments in logic, it will be invaluable to linguistics students wanting to apply logic to their studies, logic students wishing to learn how their subject can be applied to linguistics, and functional programmers interested in natural language processing as a new application area.