Practical Foundations for Programming Languages

This text develops a comprehensive theory of programming languages based on type systems and structural operational semantics. Language concepts are precisely defined by their static and dynamic semantics, presenting the essential tools both intuitively and rigorously while relying on only elementary mathematics. These tools are used to analyze and prove properties of languages and provide the framework for combining and comparing language features. The broad range of concepts includes fundamental data types such as sums and products, polymorphic and abstract types, dynamic typing, dynamic dispatch, subtyping and refinement types, symbols and dynamic classification, parallelism and cost semantics, and concurrency and distribution. The methods are directly applicable to language implementation, to the development of logics for reasoning about programs, and to the formal verification language properties such as type safety. This thoroughly revised second edition includes exercises at the end of nearly every chapter and a new chapter on type refinements.

Author: Robert Harper
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 09/01/2017
Pages: 512
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.39lbs
Size: 10.38h x 7.02w x 1.24d
ISBN13: 9781107150300
ISBN10: 1107150302
BISAC Categories:
- Computers | Languages | General

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