Types and Programming Languages
Types and Programming Languages

Author: Benjamin C. Pierce

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2002-01-04

Total Pages: 656

ISBN-13: 9780262162098

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A comprehensive introduction to type systems and programming languages. A type system is a syntactic method for automatically checking the absence of certain erroneous behaviors by classifying program phrases according to the kinds of values they compute. The study of type systems—and of programming languages from a type-theoretic perspective—has important applications in software engineering, language design, high-performance compilers, and security. This text provides a comprehensive introduction both to type systems in computer science and to the basic theory of programming languages. The approach is pragmatic and operational; each new concept is motivated by programming examples and the more theoretical sections are driven by the needs of implementations. Each chapter is accompanied by numerous exercises and solutions, as well as a running implementation, available via the Web. Dependencies between chapters are explicitly identified, allowing readers to choose a variety of paths through the material. The core topics include the untyped lambda-calculus, simple type systems, type reconstruction, universal and existential polymorphism, subtyping, bounded quantification, recursive types, kinds, and type operators. Extended case studies develop a variety of approaches to modeling the features of object-oriented languages.

Advanced Topics in Types and Programming Languages
Advanced Topics in Types and Programming Languages

Author: Benjamin C. Pierce

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2024-07-02

Total Pages: 589

ISBN-13: 0262552671

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A thorough and accessible introduction to a range of key ideas in type systems for programming language. The study of type systems for programming languages now touches many areas of computer science, from language design and implementation to software engineering, network security, databases, and analysis of concurrent and distributed systems. This book offers accessible introductions to key ideas in the field, with contributions by experts on each topic. The topics covered include precise type analyses, which extend simple type systems to give them a better grip on the run time behavior of systems; type systems for low-level languages; applications of types to reasoning about computer programs; type theory as a framework for the design of sophisticated module systems; and advanced techniques in ML-style type inference. Advanced Topics in Types and Programming Languages builds on Benjamin Pierce's Types and Programming Languages (MIT Press, 2002); most of the chapters should be accessible to readers familiar with basic notations and techniques of operational semantics and type systems—the material covered in the first half of the earlier book. Advanced Topics in Types and Programming Languages can be used in the classroom and as a resource for professionals. Most chapters include exercises, ranging in difficulty from quick comprehension checks to challenging extensions, many with solutions.

Practical Foundations for Programming Languages
Practical Foundations for Programming Languages

Author: Robert Harper

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-04-04

Total Pages: 513

ISBN-13: 1107150302

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This book unifies a broad range of programming language concepts under the framework of type systems and structural operational semantics.

Concepts in Programming Languages
Concepts in Programming Languages

Author: John C. Mitchell

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13: 9780521780988

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A comprehensive undergraduate textbook covering both theory and practical design issues, with an emphasis on object-oriented languages.

Design Concepts in Programming Languages
Design Concepts in Programming Languages

Author: Franklyn Turbak

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2008-07-18

Total Pages: 1347

ISBN-13: 0262303159

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Key ideas in programming language design and implementation explained using a simple and concise framework; a comprehensive introduction suitable for use as a textbook or a reference for researchers. Hundreds of programming languages are in use today—scripting languages for Internet commerce, user interface programming tools, spreadsheet macros, page format specification languages, and many others. Designing a programming language is a metaprogramming activity that bears certain similarities to programming in a regular language, with clarity and simplicity even more important than in ordinary programming. This comprehensive text uses a simple and concise framework to teach key ideas in programming language design and implementation. The book's unique approach is based on a family of syntactically simple pedagogical languages that allow students to explore programming language concepts systematically. It takes as premise and starting point the idea that when language behaviors become incredibly complex, the description of the behaviors must be incredibly simple. The book presents a set of tools (a mathematical metalanguage, abstract syntax, operational and denotational semantics) and uses it to explore a comprehensive set of programming language design dimensions, including dynamic semantics (naming, state, control, data), static semantics (types, type reconstruction, polymporphism, effects), and pragmatics (compilation, garbage collection). The many examples and exercises offer students opportunities to apply the foundational ideas explained in the text. Specialized topics and code that implements many of the algorithms and compilation methods in the book can be found on the book's Web site, along with such additional material as a section on concurrency and proofs of the theorems in the text. The book is suitable as a text for an introductory graduate or advanced undergraduate programming languages course; it can also serve as a reference for researchers and practitioners.

Behavioral Types in Programming Languages
Behavioral Types in Programming Languages

Author: Davide Ancona

Publisher:

Published: 2016-05-03

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 9781680831344

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Behavioral Types in Programming Languages provides the reader with the first comprehensive overview of the state of the art on this topic. Each section covers a particular programming paradigm or methodology, providing an ideal reference on the topic and identifying the areas as yet unexplored.

Type-Driven Development with Idris
Type-Driven Development with Idris

Author: Edwin Brady

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2017-03-13

Total Pages: 744

ISBN-13: 1638352240

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Summary Type-Driven Development with Idris, written by the creator of Idris, teaches you how to improve the performance and accuracy of your programs by taking advantage of a state-of-the-art type system. This book teaches you with Idris, a language designed to support type-driven development. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the Technology Stop fighting type errors! Type-driven development is an approach to coding that embraces types as the foundation of your code - essentially as built-in documentation your compiler can use to check data relationships and other assumptions. With this approach, you can define specifications early in development and write code that's easy to maintain, test, and extend. Idris is a Haskell-like language with first-class, dependent types that's perfect for learning type-driven programming techniques you can apply in any codebase. About the Book Type-Driven Development with Idris teaches you how to improve the performance and accuracy of your code by taking advantage of a state-of-the-art type system. In this book, you'll learn type-driven development of real-world software, as well as how to handle side effects, interaction, state, and concurrency. By the end, you'll be able to develop robust and verified software in Idris and apply type-driven development methods to other languages. What's Inside Understanding dependent types Types as first-class language constructs Types as a guide to program construction Expressing relationships between data About the Reader Written for programmers with knowledge of functional programming concepts. About the Author Edwin Brady leads the design and implementation of the Idris language. Table of Contents PART 1 - INTRODUCTION Overview Getting started with IdrisPART 2 - CORE IDRIS Interactive development with types User-defined data types Interactive programs: input and output processing Programming with first-class types Interfaces: using constrained generic types Equality: expressing relationships between data Predicates: expressing assumptions and contracts in types Views: extending pattern matching PART 3 - IDRIS AND THE REAL WORLD Streams and processes: working with infinite data Writing programs with state State machines: verifying protocols in types Dependent state machines: handling feedback and errors Type-safe concurrent programming

The Formal Semantics of Programming Languages
The Formal Semantics of Programming Languages

Author: Glynn Winskel

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 1993-02-05

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780262731034

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The Formal Semantics of Programming Languages provides the basic mathematical techniques necessary for those who are beginning a study of the semantics and logics of programming languages. These techniques will allow students to invent, formalize, and justify rules with which to reason about a variety of programming languages. Although the treatment is elementary, several of the topics covered are drawn from recent research, including the vital area of concurency. The book contains many exercises ranging from simple to miniprojects.Starting with basic set theory, structural operational semantics is introduced as a way to define the meaning of programming languages along with associated proof techniques. Denotational and axiomatic semantics are illustrated on a simple language of while-programs, and fall proofs are given of the equivalence of the operational and denotational semantics and soundness and relative completeness of the axiomatic semantics. A proof of Godel's incompleteness theorem, which emphasizes the impossibility of achieving a fully complete axiomatic semantics, is included. It is supported by an appendix providing an introduction to the theory of computability based on while-programs. Following a presentation of domain theory, the semantics and methods of proof for several functional languages are treated. The simplest language is that of recursion equations with both call-by-value and call-by-name evaluation. This work is extended to lan guages with higher and recursive types, including a treatment of the eager and lazy lambda-calculi. Throughout, the relationship between denotational and operational semantics is stressed, and the proofs of the correspondence between the operation and denotational semantics are provided. The treatment of recursive types - one of the more advanced parts of the book - relies on the use of information systems to represent domains. The book concludes with a chapter on parallel programming languages, accompanied by a discussion of methods for specifying and verifying nondeterministic and parallel programs.

Essentials of Programming Languages, third edition
Essentials of Programming Languages, third edition

Author: Daniel P. Friedman

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2008-04-18

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 0262062798

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A new edition of a textbook that provides students with a deep, working understanding of the essential concepts of programming languages, completely revised, with significant new material. This book provides students with a deep, working understanding of the essential concepts of programming languages. Most of these essentials relate to the semantics, or meaning, of program elements, and the text uses interpreters (short programs that directly analyze an abstract representation of the program text) to express the semantics of many essential language elements in a way that is both clear and executable. The approach is both analytical and hands-on. The book provides views of programming languages using widely varying levels of abstraction, maintaining a clear connection between the high-level and low-level views. Exercises are a vital part of the text and are scattered throughout; the text explains the key concepts, and the exercises explore alternative designs and other issues. The complete Scheme code for all the interpreters and analyzers in the book can be found online through The MIT Press web site. For this new edition, each chapter has been revised and many new exercises have been added. Significant additions have been made to the text, including completely new chapters on modules and continuation-passing style. Essentials of Programming Languages can be used for both graduate and undergraduate courses, and for continuing education courses for programmers.