Introduction to the Theory of Programming Languages by Dowek, Gilles

Introduction to the Theory of Programming Languages (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780857290755)

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Introduction to the Theory of Programming Languages by Dowek, Gilles

Introduction to the Theory of Programming Languages

$39.95
Introduction to the Theory of Programming Languages by Dowek, Gilles

Introduction to the Theory of Programming Languages

$39.95
Format: Paperback
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The design and implementation of programming languages, from Fortran and Cobol to Caml and Java, has been one of the key developments in the management of ever more complex computerized systems. Introduction to the Theory of Programming Languages gives the reader the means to discover the tools to think, design, and implement these languages. It proposes a unified vision of the different formalisms that permit definition of a programming language: small steps operational semantics, big steps operational semantics, and denotational semantics, emphasising that all seek to define a relation between three objects: a program, an input value, and an output value. These formalisms are illustrated by presenting the semantics of some typical features of programming languages: functions, recursivity, assignments, records, objects, ... showing that the study of programming languages does not consist of studying languages one after another, but is organized around the features that are present in these various languages. The study of these features leads to the development of evaluators, interpreters and compilers, and also type inference algorithms, for small languages.

Author: Gilles Dowek, Jean-Jacques Lévy
ISBN-10: 0857290754
ISBN-13: 9780857290755
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 12/15/2010
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.36lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.23d

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By Gilles Dowek
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Gilles Dowek is a Professor at École Polytechnique. He is also a Researcher at the Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'École Polytechnique and the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA). His research concerns the formalization of mathematics and the mechanization of reasoning. His main contribution is a reformulation of the axiomatic method which provides a central role to the notion of computation. Jean-Jacques Lévy is a senior scientist at the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique and a Professor at École Polytechnique. He has successively worked on operational and denotational semantics of programming languages, on reduction strategies in lambda-calculus and in rewrite systems, on the computer aided design of circuits and on the semantics of concurrency with applications to distribution and mobility.

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