Advanced Topics in Types and Programming Languages - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262162288 ISBN 13: 9780262162289

Publisher: The MIT Press, 2004

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Benjamin C. Pierce is Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania.

Edition details

• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262162288
• ISBN 13: 9780262162289
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 588
• Editor: Pierce Benjamin C.