Additional Readings

Examples

Recommended References

[Aab] Introduction to Programming Languages, by Anthony A. Aaby, Walla Walla College.
Nice (if unfinished) overview of programming languages and programming paradigms.
[And] Misprints and errors in Glynn Winskel: The Formal Semantics of Programming Languages, by Nils Andersen, DIKU.
Check them out as you go.

Complementary Textbooks

[Gor] The denotational description of programming languages : an introduction, by Michael Gordon. Springer-Verlag, 1979.
Informal introduction to the main concepts of denotational semantics.
[Gun] Semantics of programming languages : structures and techniques by Carl Gunter. MIT Press, 1992.
[Hen] The semantics of programming languages, by Matthew Hennessy. Wiley, 1990.
Operational and denotational semantics. Part of the book is available online in ps format.
[Mey] Introduction to the theory of programming languages, by Bertrand Meyer. Prentice Hall, 1990.
[Pie] Types and Programming Languages. by Benjamin Pierce. MIT Press, 2002.
[Slo] Formal syntax and semantics of programming languages : a laboratory based approach, by Kenneth Slonneger and Bayy Kurtz. Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1995.
Operational, denotational, axiomatic and algebraic approaches.
[Ten] Semantics of programming languages, by R. D. Tennent. Prentice Hall, 1991.
Operational, denotational and axiomatic approaches.

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Last Updated: Dec 12, 2002