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ALGOL-like languages

Peter W. O'Hearn, Robert D. Tennent, editors

(Progress in theoretical computer science)

Birkhauser, c1997

  • v. 1
  • v. 2

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Volume

v. 1 ISBN 9780817638801

Description

In recent years there has been a remarkable convergence of interest in programming languages based on ALGOL 60. Researchers interested in the theory of procedural and object-oriented languages discovered that ALGOL 60 shows how to add procedures and object classes to simple imperative languages in a general and clean way. And, on the other hand, researchers interested in purely functional languages discovered that ALGOL 60 shows how to add imperative mechanisms to functional languages in a way that does not compromise their desirable properties. Unfortunately, many of the key works in this field have been rather hard to obtain. The primary purpose of this collection is to make the most significant material on ALGoL-like languages conveniently available to graduate students and researchers. Contents Introduction to Volume 1 1 Part I Historical Background 1 Part n Basic Principles 3 Part III Language Design 5 Introduction to Volume 2 6 Part IV Functor-Category Semantics 7 Part V Specification Logic 7 Part VI Procedures and Local Variables 8 Part vn Interference, Irreversibility and Concurrency 9 Acknowledgements 11 Bibliography 11 Introduction to Volume 1 This volume contains historical and foundational material, and works on lan guage design. All of the material should be accessible to beginning graduate students in programming languages and theoretical Computer Science.

Table of Contents

I Historical Background.- 1 Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 60.- 2 The Varieties of Programming Language.- II Basic Principles.- 3 The Essence of ALGOL.- 4 ALGOL and Functional Programming.- 5 Orthogonality of Assignments and Procedures in ALGOL.- 6 IDEALIZED ALGOL and its Specification Logic.- 7 Towards Fully Abstract Semantics for Local Variables.- III Language Design.- 8 Design of the Programming Language FORSYTHE.- 9 Assignments for Applicative Languages.- 10 Syntactic Control of Interference.
Volume

v. 2 ISBN 9780817639372

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To construct a compiler for a modern higher-level programming languagel one needs to structure the translation to a machine-like intermediate language in a way that reflects the semantics of the language. little is said about such struc turing in compiler texts that are intended to cover a wide variety of program ming languages. More is said in the Iiterature on semantics-directed compiler construction [1] but here too the viewpoint is very general (though limited to 1 languages with a finite number of syntactic types). On the other handl there is a considerable body of work using the continuation-passing transformation to structure compilers for the specific case of call-by-value languages such as SCHEME and ML [21 3]. ln this paperl we will describe a method of structuring the translation of ALGOL-like languages that is based on the functor-category semantics devel oped by Reynolds [4] and Oles [51 6]. An alternative approach using category theory to structure compilers is the early work of F. L. Morris [7]1 which anticipates our treatment of boolean expressionsl but does not deal with procedures. 2 Types and Syntax An ALGOL-like language is a typed lambda calculus with an unusual repertoire of primitive types. Throughout most of this paper we assume that the primi tive types are comm(and) int(eger)exp(ression) int(eger)acc(eptor) int(eger)var(iable) I and that the set 8 of types is the least set containing these primitive types and closed under the binary operation -.

Table of Contents

11 Functor Categories and Store Shapes.- 12 Using Functor Categories to Generate Intermediate Code.- 13 Semantical Analysis of Specification Logic.- 14 Semantical Analysis of Specification Logic, 2.- 15 Full Abstraction for the Second-Order Subset.- 16 Parametricity and Local Variables.- 17 Operationally-Based Reasoning About Local Variables.- 18 Syntactic Control of Interference Revisited.- 19 Global State Considered Unnecessary.- 20 Linearity, Sharing and State.- 21 The Essence of Parallel Algol.- of Volume 1.

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