Practical Foundations for Programming Languages

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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

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Created:	2022-02-03
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Author(s):	Robert Harper

Practical Foundations for Programming Languages

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