Practical Foundations for Programming Languages
Cambridge University Press
Edition: 2, 4/4/2016
EAN 9781107150300, ISBN10: 1107150302
Hardcover, 512 pages, 25.3 x 17.7 x 3.2 cm
Language: English
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.
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.