New Semantics Textbook 
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 New Semantics Textbook

A new introductory textbook on Semantics has appeared:

  Semantics with Applications: A Formal Introduction
  by Hanne Riis Nielson and Flemming Nielson (Aarhus, Denmark)
  published by Wiley (ISBN 0-471-92980-8)

From the back cover:

  Ambiguities in the language used to specify the requirements or
  behaviour of a program, a programming language, or bits of
  hardware might result in costly errors. Formal semantics can be
  used to define exactly and rigorously how programs should
  behave, and to prove that they can be implemented correctly.

  This introductory text provides the framework for understanding,
  applying and relating the competing approaches to formal
  semantics. It does so by illustrating the description of pro-
  gramming constructs using operational ('natural' or 'structural
  operational'), denotational or axiomatic semantics.

  It breaks new ground by considering also the validation of
  compilers, static program analysers and techniques for estimating
  the running time of individual programs.

  The reader is gently introduced to the proof techniques needed for
  equivalence proofs to provide the insight needed for an informed
  choice of semantic approach (given the programming language
  and the task at hand).

  Readers should be familiar with the BNF-style of specifying the
  syntax of programming languages and with most of the math-
  ematical concepts surveyed in Appendix A (which gives the
  mathematical notation on which the book is based). Appendices B,
  C and D contain implementations of some of the semantic
  specifications using the functional language Miranda. Numerous
  exercises are provided -- they are graded according to relevance
  and difficulty.

The book is about 240 pages and costs app. 16.50UKpounds/31.85USdollars.

Sun, 03 Jul 1994 17:02:55 GMT  
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