| Practical Foundations for Programming Languages Revised Edition Contributor(s): Harper, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 1107150302 ISBN-13: 9781107150300 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $79.79 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | Programming Languages - General |
| Dewey: 005.13 |
| LCCN: 2015045380 |
| Physical Information: 1.24" H x 7.02" W x 10.38" (2.39 lbs) 512 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Harper, Robert: - Robert Harper is a professor in the computer science department at Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania. His main research interest is in the application of type theory to the design and implementation of programming languages and to the mechanization of their meta-theory. Harper is a recipient of the Allen Newell Medal for Research Excellence and the Herbert A. Simon Award for Teaching Excellence, and is an Association for Computing Machinery Fellow. |