Practical Foundations for Programming Languages

Download free course Practical Foundations for Programming Languages, pdf file on 590 pages by Robert Harper.

Types are the central organizing principle of the theory of programming languages. Language features are manifestations of type structure. The syntax of a language is governed by the constructs that define its types, and its semantics is determined by the interactions among those constructs. The soundness of a language design - the absence of ill-defined programs-follows naturally. The purpose of this book is to explain this remark. A variety of programming language features are analyzed in the unifying framework of type theory. A language feature is defined by its statics, the rules governing the use of the feature in a program, and its dynamics, the rules defining how programs using this feature are to be executed. The concept of safety emerges as the coherence of the statics and the dynamics of a language.

In this way we establish a foundation for the study of programming languages. But why these particular methods? The main justification is provided by the book itself. The methods we use are both precise and intuitive, providing a uniform framework for explaining programming language concepts. Importantly, these methods scale to a wide range of programming language concepts, supporting rigorous analysis of their properties. Although it would require another book in itself to justify this assertion, these methods are also practical in that they are directly applicable to implementation and uniquely effective as a basis for mechanized reasoning. No other framework offers as much.

Table of contents

Judgments and Rules
Syntactic Objects
Inductive Definitions
Hypothetical and General Judgments
Statics and Dynamics
Statics
Dynamics
Type Safety
Evaluation Dynamics
Function Types
Function Definitions and Values
Godel's T
Plotkin's PCF
Finite Data Types
Product Types
Sum Types
Pattern Matching
Generic Programming
Infinite Data Types
Inductive and Co-Inductive Types
Recursive Types
Dynamic Types
The Untyped -Calculus
Dynamic Typing
Hybrid Typing
Variable Types
Girard's System F
Abstract Types
Constructors and Kinds
Subtyping
Subtyping
Singleton Kinds
Classes and Methods
Dynamic Dispatch
Inheritance
Exceptions and Continuations
Control Stacks
Exceptions
Continuations
Types and Propositions
Constructive Logic
Classical Logic
Symbols
Symbols
Fluid Binding
Dynamic Classification
State
Modernized Algol
Assignable References
Laziness
Lazy Evaluation
Polarization
Parallelism
Nested Parallelism
Futures and Speculations
Concurrency
Process Calculus
Concurrent Algol
Distributed Algol
Modularity
Components and Linking
Type Abstractions and Type Classes
Hierarchy and Parameterization
Equational Reasoning
Equational Reasoning for T
Equational Reasoning for PCF
Parametricity
Process Equivalence
Appendices
Finite Sets and Finite Functions

Pages :	590
Size :	3.0 MB
File type :	PDF
Downloads:	76
Created:	2022-02-03
License:	CC BY-NC-ND
Author(s):	Robert Harper

Practical Foundations for Programming Languages

Others programming Tutorials

Programming Persistent Memory

Programming Persistent Memory: A Comprehensive Guide for Developers

Introduction to Programming with Fortran

Java 3D Programming

Certified Programming with Dependent Types

Others related eBooks about Practical Foundations for Programming Languages

Learning .NET EPPlus

Download free course Learning .NET EPPlus, pdf file on 39 pages by Stack Overflow Community....

Programming for Computations - Python: A Gentle Introduction to Numerical Simulations with Python 3.6

This second edition of the well-received book has been extensively revised: All code is now written in Python version 3.6 (no longer version 2.7). In addition, the two first chapters of the previous edition have been extended and split up into five new chapters, thus expanding the introduction to pr...

Python re(gex)?

Download free course Python re(gex)?, pdf file on 71 pages by Sundeep Agarwal....

Free Algorithms eBook

Download free Algorithm tutorial course in PDF, training file in 65 chapters and 327 pages. Free unaffiliated ebook created from Stack OverFlow contributor....

Beginner's Android Development

Beginner's Android Development Tutorial in PDF,free training course document under 26 pages to learn the basics of Mobile development....

VBA Notes for Professionals

Download free course VBA Notes for Professionals, pdf file on 202 pages by Stack Overflow Community....

Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures Using Python

THIS TEXTBOOK is about computer science. It is also about Python. However, there is much more. The study of algorithms and data structures is central to understanding what computer science is all about. Learning computer science is not unlike learning any other type of difficult subject matter. Th...

Download Haskell PDF Tutorial

Download Haskell PDF Tutorial for free, it consisting of 24 chapters and 683 pages covering all the most important Haskell concepts. This tutorial is intended for beginner programmers, and we recommend you to go through all the chapters, to get the most out of it as possible....

Delphi Language Manual Guide

This tutorial describes the Delphi language as it is used in Borland development tools. This book describes the Delphi language on both the Win32, and .NET development platforms....

Essential Ruby

This book written to provide clear and concise explanation of topics for programmers both starting to learn the Ruby programming language as well as those diving in more complex topics. Most examples are linked to online playground that allows you to change the code and re-run it....