Practical foundations for programming languages

✍ Scribed by Harper, Robert

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 514
• Edition: 2nd edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

1. Judgment and rules
   2. Statics and dynamics
   3. Total functions
   4. Finite data types
   5. Types and propositions
   6. Infinite data types
   7. Variable types
   8. Partiality and recursive types
   9. Dynamic types
   10. Subtyping
   11. Dynamic dispatch
   12. Control flow
   13. Symbolic data
   14. Mutable state
   15. Parallelism
   16. Concurrency and distribution
   17. Modularity
   18. Equational reasoning
   19. Appendices.

✦ Subjects

Programming languages (Electronic computers)