TY - BOOK ID - 68575484 TI - Practical foundations for programming languages PY - 2013 SN - 9781107029576 1107029570 9781139342131 1107306841 9781107306844 9781107314597 1107314593 1139342134 9781107301757 1107301750 9781107309043 1107309042 1107237300 9781107237308 1107254868 9781107254862 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Programming languages (Electronic computers). KW - Computers KW - Programming Languages KW - General. KW - Programming languages (Electronic computers) KW - COMPUTERS / Programming Languages / General KW - 681.3*D33 KW - 681.3*D3 KW - 681.3*F33 KW - 681.3*F3 KW - 681.3*F3 Logics and meanings of programs (Theory of computation) KW - Logics and meanings of programs (Theory of computation) KW - 681.3*D3 Programming languages KW - Programming languages KW - 681.3*D33 Languages constructs: abstract data types; concurrent programming structures;control structures; coroutines (Programming languages) KW - Languages constructs: abstract data types; concurrent programming structures;control structures; coroutines (Programming languages) KW - Computer languages KW - Computer program languages KW - Computer programming languages KW - Machine language KW - Electronic data processing KW - Languages, Artificial KW - 681.3*F33 Studies of program constructs: control primitives; functional constructs; program and recursion schemes; type structure (Logics and meanings of programs)-- See also {681.3*D32}; {681.3*D33} KW - Studies of program constructs: control primitives; functional constructs; program and recursion schemes; type structure (Logics and meanings of programs)-- See also {681.3*D32}; {681.3*D33} UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:68575484 AB - Types are the central organizing principle of the theory of programming languages. In this innovative book, Professor Robert Harper offers a fresh perspective on the fundamentals of these languages through the use of type theory. Whereas most textbooks on the subject emphasize taxonomy, Harper instead emphasizes genetics, examining the building blocks from which all programming languages are constructed. 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. Professor Harper's presentation is simultaneously rigorous and intuitive, relying on elementary mathematics. The framework he outlines scales easily to a rich variety of language concepts and is directly applicable to their implementation. The result is a lucid introduction to programming theory that is both accessible and practical. ER -