Practical Foundations for Programming Languages (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781107150300)

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.

Author: Robert Harper
ISBN-10: 1107150302
ISBN-13: 9781107150300
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/04/2016
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.39lbs
Size: 10.38h x 7.02w x 1.24d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2017