Denotational Description of Programming Languages

Name: Denotational Description of Programming Languages
Brand: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
SKU: 9780387904337
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An Introduction

Autor: M.J.C. Gordon

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This book explains how to formally describe programming languages using the techniques of denotation...

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Autor

M.J.C. Gordon

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Miękka

Data wydania

1984

strony

162

EAN

9780387904337

ISBN

0387904336

Enbook ID

02170929

Wydawca

Springer-Verlag New York Inc.

Waga

272

Wymiary

155 x 235 x 11

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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.

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