Ebook: Categorical Combinators, Sequential Algorithms, and Functional Programming
Author: Pierre-Louis Curien
- Tags: Math Applications in Computer Science, Algorithms, Programming Techniques, Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity, Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis, Combinatorics
- Series: Progress in Theoretical Computer Science
- Year: 1993
- Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
- Edition: 2
- Language: English
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This book is a revised edition of the monograph which appeared under the same title in the series Research Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, Pit man, in 1986. In addition to a general effort to improve typography, English, and presentation, the main novelty of this second edition is the integration of some new material. Part of it is mine (mostly jointly with coauthors). Here is brief guide to these additions. I have augmented the account of categorical combinatory logic with a description of the confluence properties of rewriting systems of categor ical combinators (Hardin, Yokouchi), and of the newly developed cal culi of explicit substitutions (Abadi, Cardelli, Curien, Hardin, Levy, and Rios), which are similar in spirit to the categorical combinatory logic, but are closer to the syntax of A-calculus (Section 1.2). The study of the full abstraction problem for PCF and extensions of it has been enriched with a new full abstraction result: the model of sequential algorithms is fully abstract with respect to an extension of PCF with a control operator (Cartwright, Felleisen, Curien). An order extensional model of error-sensitive sequential algorithms is also fully abstract for a corresponding extension of PCF with a control operator and errors (Sections 2.6 and 4.1). I suggest that sequential algorithms lend themselves to a decomposition of the function spaces that leads to models of linear logic (Lamarche, Curien), and that connects sequentiality with games (Joyal, Blass, Abramsky) (Sections 2.1 and 2.6).
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Categorical Combinators....Pages 1-158
Sequential Algorithms....Pages 159-250
CDS0: The Kernel of a Functional Language....Pages 251-315
The Full Abstraction Problem....Pages 316-364
Conclusion....Pages 365-365
Mathematical Prerequisites....Pages 366-380
Back Matter....Pages 381-404
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Categorical Combinators....Pages 1-158
Sequential Algorithms....Pages 159-250
CDS0: The Kernel of a Functional Language....Pages 251-315
The Full Abstraction Problem....Pages 316-364
Conclusion....Pages 365-365
Mathematical Prerequisites....Pages 366-380
Back Matter....Pages 381-404
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