Ebook: ALGOL-like Languages
- Genre: Computers // Programming: Programming Languages
- Tags: Math Applications in Computer Science, Applications of Mathematics, Programming Languages Compilers Interpreters, Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages
- Series: Progress in Theoretical Computer Science
- Year: 1996
- Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
- Language: English
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In recent years there has been a remarkable convergence of interest in programming languages based on ALGOL 60. Researchers interested in the theory of procedural and object-oriented languages discovered that ALGOL 60 shows how to add procedures and object classes to simple imperative languages in a general and clean way. And, on the other hand, researchers interested in purely functional languages discovered that ALGOL 60 shows how to add imperative mechanisms to functional languages in a way that does not compromise their desirable properties. Unfortunately, many of the key works in this field have been rather hard to obtain. The primary purpose of this collection is to make the most significant material on ALGoL-like languages conveniently available to graduate students and researchers. Contents Introduction to Volume 1 1 Part I Historical Background 1 Part n Basic Principles 3 Part III Language Design 5 Introduction to Volume 2 6 Part IV Functor-Category Semantics 7 Part V Specification Logic 7 Part VI Procedures and Local Variables 8 Part vn Interference, Irreversibility and Concurrency 9 Acknowledgements 11 Bibliography 11 Introduction to Volume 1 This volume contains historical and foundational material, and works on lan guage design. All of the material should be accessible to beginning graduate students in programming languages and theoretical Computer Science.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Introduction....Pages 1-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language Algol 60....Pages 19-49
The Varieties of Programming Language....Pages 51-64
Front Matter....Pages 65-65
The Essence of Algol ....Pages 67-88
Algol and Functional Programming....Pages 89-99
On the Orthogonality of Assignments and Procedures in Algol ....Pages 101-124
Idealized Algol and its Specification Logic....Pages 125-156
Towards Fully Abstract Semantics for Local Variables: Preliminary Report....Pages 157-169
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
Design of the Programming Language Forsythe ....Pages 173-233
Assignments for Applicative Languages....Pages 235-271
Syntactic Control of Interference....Pages 273-286
Back Matter....Pages 287-287
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Introduction....Pages 1-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language Algol 60....Pages 19-49
The Varieties of Programming Language....Pages 51-64
Front Matter....Pages 65-65
The Essence of Algol ....Pages 67-88
Algol and Functional Programming....Pages 89-99
On the Orthogonality of Assignments and Procedures in Algol ....Pages 101-124
Idealized Algol and its Specification Logic....Pages 125-156
Towards Fully Abstract Semantics for Local Variables: Preliminary Report....Pages 157-169
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
Design of the Programming Language Forsythe ....Pages 173-233
Assignments for Applicative Languages....Pages 235-271
Syntactic Control of Interference....Pages 273-286
Back Matter....Pages 287-287
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