Theories of Programming Languages (Hardcover)

Preface; 1. Predicate Logic; 2. The Simple Imperative Language; 3. Programme Specifications and their Proofs; 4. Arrays; 5. Failure, Input-Output and Continuations; 6. Transition Semantics; 7. Nondeterminism and Guarded Commands; 8. Shared-variable Concurrency; 9. Communicating Sequential Processes; 10. The Lambda Calculus; 11. An Eager Functional Language; 12. Continuations in a Functional Language; 13. Iswim-like Languages; 14. A Normal-order Language; 15. The Simple Type System; 16. Subtypes and Intersection Types; 17. Polymorphism; 18. Module Specification; 19. Algol-like Languages; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.