Consistent and complementary formal theories of the semantics of programming languages

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jan 1974 United Kingdom English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Acta Informatica, volume 3 (issn: 0001-5903, eissn: 1432-0525,

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Authors: Hoare, C; Lauer, P;

doi: 10.1007/bf00264034

Consistent and complementary formal theories of the semantics of programming languages

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This paper presents a comparative study of different methods for formal description of programming languages. These methods have been applied to a simple but realistically usable programming language; the more abstract definitions have been proved to be consistent relative to the more concrete ones.

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University of Oxford
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Queen's University Belfast
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Newcastle University
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General topics in the theory of software, Formal languages and automata

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