Logic of Programmig and Calculi of Discrete Design

Bauer, F.L.; Broy, M.; Dijkstra, E.W.; Hoare, C.A.R. (Directors); Broy, Manfred (Editor)

ISBN 10: 3540180036 / ISBN 13: 9783540180036

Published by Springer, Berlin, 1987

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Hardcover with printed boards, no dust jacket, in very good condition. Boards are slightly marked, and edges and spine ends are bumped and nicked in places. Page block is lightly tanned and blemished, page edges are a little tanned, and previous owner's name penned to front end-paper. Pages are otherwise clear and binding is sound. LW.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Logic of Programmig and Calculi of Discrete Design
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540180036
• ISBN 13: 9783540180036
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
• Book Type: Used
• Seller catalogs:
  • Computers & Technology (incl. AI)

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Synopsis

In computing science design plays an eminently important role. By now, it is quite clear that the issue of proper design of programs within a formal calculus is one of the most interesting and most difficult parts of computing science. Many demanding problems have to be envisaged here such as notations, rules and calculi, and the study of semantic models. We are 'far away from comprehensive and widely accepted solutions in these areas. Discussions at the summer school have clearly shown that people have quite different perspectives and priorities with respect to these three main areas. There is a general agreement that notation is very important. Here, notation is not so much used in the sense of "syntactic sugar", but rather in the sense of abstract syntax, in the sense of language constructs. Proper notation can significantly improve our understanding of the nature of the objects that we are dealing with and simplify the formal manipulation of these objects. However, influenced by educational background, habits, and schools of thought there are quite different tastes with respect to notation. The papers in these proceedings show very clearly how different those notations can be even when talking about quite similar objects.