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Abstraction Mechanisms and Language Design

Author : Paul N. Hilfinger
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Abstraction Mechanisms and Language Design written by Paul N. Hilfinger and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1983 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The research reported in this book advances the art of designing programming languages. It sets forth some design principles for abstraction mechanisms and demonstrates their power by showing how they led to improvements in the design of Ada, a new language devised for the Department of Defense and one that will be wisely used in DOD-related projects. The author was a full-time consultant for the preliminary Ada language design and his suggestions for revising it were remarkable in that of the many revisions proposed, his were among the few that proved effective. The book also considers the likely outcome of even more substantial changes to the current version of Ada. In focusing on the effects of abstracting or generalizing the definitional mechanisms of a particular language, the author notes that these effects are manifested in two ways: in the complexity and expressive power of the language, and in the expected performance of programs written in it. He concludes, with regard to the first effect, that proper design of the abstraction facilities of a language can simpify it and icrease its utility to programmers, and wiht regard to the second, that abstraction mechanisms need not involve.

Designing Flexible, Modular Linguistic Abstractions

Author : Yizhou Zhang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book Designing Flexible, Modular Linguistic Abstractions written by Yizhou Zhang and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Programming-language design is more active than ever: existing languages are evolving continually and rapidly, and new languages keep springing up. While this constant iteration of language design aims to help programmers manage a growing software complexity, programmers are still frequently frustrated by poor design decisions in even the most essential aspects of modern programming languages. Less than satisfactory solutions to generic programming and exception handling typify this situation: the inadequacy of current solutions has even forced language designers to abandon these problematic language features. This is an unfortunate state of affairs. Language design does not have to be about abandoning old features or piling on new ones. This dissertation proposes novel linguistic abstractions for the aforementioned design problems, offering ease of use, expressive power, strong guarantees, and good performance all at the same time. It introduces a new mechanism for generic programming, embodied in the Genus programming language. Genus adds expressive power and strengthens static checking, while handling common usage patterns simply. The power of Genus is then integrated into a second language design, Familia, that unifies several polymorphism mechanisms in a lightweight package. Evaluation suggests the design of Genus and Familia addresses the need for genericity and extensibility in developing large, complex software. This dissertation also introduces a new mechanism for exception handling. By allowing exceptions to tunnel through handlers, the design offers both the static assurance of checked exceptions and the flexibility of unchecked exceptions. This tunneling semantics is then generalized to a broader class of control effects to address a fundamental modularity problem: it prevents effect-polymorphic abstractions from handling effects by accident. This claim about abstraction safety is formally accounted for. We hope that the language-design ideas presented here will make their way into mainstream programming languages and help make it easier to write and reason about software.

Programming Language Design Concepts

Author : David A. Watt
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Programming Language Design Concepts written by David A. Watt and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2004-05-21 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the concepts underlying programming languages, and demonstrates how these concepts are synthesized in the major paradigms: imperative, OO, concurrent, functional, logic and with recent scripting languages. It gives greatest prominence to the OO paradigm. Includes numerous examples using C, Java and C++ as exmplar languages Additional case-study languages: Python, Haskell, Prolog and Ada Extensive end-of-chapter exercises with sample solutions on the companion Web site Deepens study by examining the motivation of programming languages not just their features

Computer Science

Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309165636
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Computer Science written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2004-10-06 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computer Science: Reflections on the Field, Reflections from the Field provides a concise characterization of key ideas that lie at the core of computer science (CS) research. The book offers a description of CS research recognizing the richness and diversity of the field. It brings together two dozen essays on diverse aspects of CS research, their motivation and results. By describing in accessible form computer science's intellectual character, and by conveying a sense of its vibrancy through a set of examples, the book aims to prepare readers for what the future might hold and help to inspire CS researchers in its creation.

Data Abstraction in Programming Languages

Author : Judith Mary Bishop
Publisher : Addison Wesley Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Data Abstraction in Programming Languages written by Judith Mary Bishop and published by Addison Wesley Publishing Company. This book was released on 1986 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Syntax, Semantics and Implementation Strategies for Programming Languages with Powerful Abstraction Mechanisms

Author : Henning Christiansen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (923 download)

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Download or read book Syntax, Semantics and Implementation Strategies for Programming Languages with Powerful Abstraction Mechanisms written by Henning Christiansen and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

How to Design Programs, second edition

Author : Matthias Felleisen
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262344122
Total Pages : 793 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Book Synopsis How to Design Programs, second edition by : Matthias Felleisen

Download or read book How to Design Programs, second edition written by Matthias Felleisen and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-05-25 with total page 793 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A completely revised edition, offering new design recipes for interactive programs and support for images as plain values, testing, event-driven programming, and even distributed programming. This introduction to programming places computer science at the core of a liberal arts education. Unlike other introductory books, it focuses on the program design process, presenting program design guidelines that show the reader how to analyze a problem statement, how to formulate concise goals, how to make up examples, how to develop an outline of the solution, how to finish the program, and how to test it. Because learning to design programs is about the study of principles and the acquisition of transferable skills, the text does not use an off-the-shelf industrial language but presents a tailor-made teaching language. For the same reason, it offers DrRacket, a programming environment for novices that supports playful, feedback-oriented learning. The environment grows with readers as they master the material in the book until it supports a full-fledged language for the whole spectrum of programming tasks. This second edition has been completely revised. While the book continues to teach a systematic approach to program design, the second edition introduces different design recipes for interactive programs with graphical interfaces and batch programs. It also enriches its design recipes for functions with numerous new hints. Finally, the teaching languages and their IDE now come with support for images as plain values, testing, event-driven programming, and even distributed programming.

Program Development in Java

Author : Barbara Liskov
Publisher : Addison-Wesley Professional
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Program Development in Java written by Barbara Liskov and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 2001 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liskov (engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Guttag (computer science and engineering, also at MIT) present a component- based methodology for software program development. The book focuses on modular program construction: how to get the modules right and how to organize a program as a collection of modules. It explains the key types of abstractions, demonstrates how to develop specifications that define these abstractions, and illustrates how to implement them using numerous examples. An introduction to key Java concepts is included. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

A Framework for Incorporating Abstraction Mechanisms Into the Logic Programming Paradigm

Author : Joseph L. Zachary
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (182 download)

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Book Synopsis A Framework for Incorporating Abstraction Mechanisms Into the Logic Programming Paradigm by : Joseph L. Zachary

Download or read book A Framework for Incorporating Abstraction Mechanisms Into the Logic Programming Paradigm written by Joseph L. Zachary and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To help make logic programming more suitable for writing large systems, we develop linguistic mechanisms that permit the organization of logic programs around abstractions. In particular, we present the design of Denali, an equational logic programming language that supports predicate and data abstraction. The key issue in introducing predicate abstraction is dealing with the difference between the declarative and procedural interpretations of logic programs. We address this issue by introducing a two-dimensional type system to describe predicate interfaces. The two components are a sort system and a novel multi-valued mode system. Multi-valued modes constrain the ways in which arguments to predicates may be instantiated. A collection of such modes is defined by the programmer for each sort. The key issue in introducing data abstraction is providing ways to obtain equational unification procedures. We develop a pragmatic approach that relies upon the programmer to implement these procedures. We facilitate this by supporting a variety of techniques that simplify the problem. Among these techniques are treating unification on a sort-by-sort basis, layering implementations so as to exploit built-in unification procedures, and using the mode system to constrain the unification problem.

OOIS’96

Author : Dilipkumar Patel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1447109732
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book OOIS’96 written by Dilipkumar Patel and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the papers presented at the Third International Conference on Object Oriented Information Systems (00lS'96) which was held at South Bank University, London. The keynote addresses, by Professor Colette Roland and Mr Ian Graham, are also included. The acceptance rate for papers was around 47%. The papers for the Industry Day were invited papers. The keynote paper by Professor Roland analyses the challenges in object modelling, particularly the impact of requirements engineering for conceptual modelling. She suggests innovative research perspectives to enhance and extend object oriented approaches in order to deal with the emerging area of requirements engineering. The keynote paper presented by Mr. Graham focuses on the problems and solutions for adopting use cases. In his paper, Graham illustrates the theoretical issues and practical problems of use cases, and highlights them using examples. The papers included in this volume cover different aspects of object modelling, object oriented software development, object databases, and interoperability. In the modelling session, Ram, et al. outline an extended object model to tackle the problems of capturing complex requirements of office information systems. Simons' paper concentrates on core object modelling concepts and presents a mathematical theory of class.

Readings in Object-Oriented Database Systems

Author : Stanley B. Zdonik
Publisher : Morgan Kaufmann
ISBN 13 : 9781558600003
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Readings in Object-Oriented Database Systems written by Stanley B. Zdonik and published by Morgan Kaufmann. This book was released on 1990 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive collection is a survey of research in object-oriented databases, offering a substantive overview of the field, section introductions, and over 40 research papers presented in their original scope and detail. The balanced selection of articles presents a confluence of ideas from both the language and database research communities that have contributed to the object-oriented paradigm. The editors develop a general definition and model for object-oriented databases and relate significant research efforts to this framework. Further, the collection explores the fundamental notions behind object-oriented databases, semantic data models, implementation of object-oriented systems, transaction processing, interfaces, and related approaches. Research and theory are balanced by applications to CAD systems, programming environments, and office information systems.

Concepts in Programming Languages

Author : John C. Mitchell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521780988
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Concepts in Programming Languages written by John C. Mitchell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive undergraduate textbook covering both theory and practical design issues, with an emphasis on object-oriented languages.

Foundations of Knowledge Base Management

Author : Joachim W. Schmidt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642833977
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (428 download)

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Download or read book Foundations of Knowledge Base Management written by Joachim W. Schmidt and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past, applied artificial intelligence systems were built with particular emphasis on general reasoning methods intended to function efficiently, even when only relatively little domain-specific knowledge was available. In other words, AI technology aimed at the processing of knowledge stored under comparatively general representation schemes. Nowadays, the focus has been redirected to the role played by specific and detailed knowledge, rather than to the reasoning methods themselves. Many new application systems are centered around knowledge bases, i. e. , they are based on large collections offacts, rules, and heuristics that cap ture knowledge about a specific domain of applications. Experience has shown that when used in combination with rich knowledge bases, even simple reasoning methods can be extremely effective in a wide variety of problem domains. Knowledge base construction and management will thus become the key factor in the development of viable knowledge-based ap plications. Knowledge Base Management Systems (KBMSs) are being proposed that provide user-friendly environments for the construction, retrieval, and manipUlation of large shared knowledge bases. In addition to deductive reasoning, KBMSs require operational characteristics such as concurrent access, integrity maintenance, error recovery, security, and perhaps distribution. For the development ofKBMSs, the need to integrate concepts and technologies from different areas, such as Artificial Intel ligence, Databases, and Logic, has been widely recognized. One of the central issues for KBMSs is the framework used for knowledge representation-semantic networks, frames, rules, and logics are proposed by the AI and logic communities.

NBS Special Publication

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book NBS Special Publication written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

ECOOP '96 - Object-Oriented Programming

Author : Pierre Cointe
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783540614395
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book ECOOP '96 - Object-Oriented Programming written by Pierre Cointe and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1996-06-26 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, ECOOP '96, held in Linz, Austria, in July 1996. The 21 full papers included in revised version were selected from a total of 173 submissions, based on technical quality and originality criteria. The papers reflect the most advanced issues in the field of object-oriented programming and cover a wide range of current topics, including applications, programming languages, implementation, specification, distribution, databases, and design.

Codecharts

Author : Amnon H. Eden
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118110013
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (181 download)

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Download or read book Codecharts written by Amnon H. Eden and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW LANGUAGE VISUALIZES PROGRAM ABSTRACTIONS CLEARLY AND PRECISELY Popular software modelling notations visualize implementation minutiae but fail to scale, to capture design abstractions, and to deliver effective tool support. Tailored to overcome these limitations, Codecharts can elegantly model roadmaps and blueprints for Java, C++, and C# programs of any size clearly, precisely, and at any level of abstraction. More practically, significant productivity gains for programmers using tools supporting Codecharts have been demonstrated in controlled experiments. Hundreds of figures and examples in this book illustrate how Codecharts are used to: Visualize the building-blocks of object-oriented design Create bird's-eye roadmaps of large programs with minimal symbols and no clutter Model blueprints of patterns, frameworks, and other design decisions Be exactly sure what diagrams claim about programs and reason rigorously about them Tools supporting Codecharts are also shown here to: Recover design from plain Java and visualize the program's roadmap Verify conformance to design decision with a click of a button This classroom-tested book includes two main parts: Practice (Part I) offers experienced programmers, software designers and software engineering students practical tools for representing and communicating object-oriented design. It demonstrates how to model programs, patterns, libraries, and frameworks using examples from JDK, Java 3D, JUnit, JDOM, Enterprise JavaBeans, and the Composite, Iterator, Factory Method, Abstract Factory, and Proxy design patterns. Theory (Part II) offers a mathematical foundation for Codecharts to graduate students and researchers studying software design, modelling, specification, and verification. It defines a formal semantics and a satisfies relation for design verification, and uses them to reason about the relations between patterns and programs (e.g., "java.awt implements Composite" and "Factory Method is an abstraction of Iterator").

Algebraic Methods II: Theory, Tools and Applications

Author : Jan A. Bergstra
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783540539124
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Algebraic Methods II: Theory, Tools and Applications written by Jan A. Bergstra and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1991-04-10 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proper treatment and choice of the basic data structures is an important and complex part in the process of program construction. Algebraic methods provide techniques for data abstraction and the structured specification, validation and analysis of data structures. This volume originates from a workshop organized within ESPRIT Project 432 METEOR, An Integrated Formal Approach to Industrial Software Development, held in Mierlo, The Netherlands, September 1989. The volume includes five invited contributions based on workshop talks given by A. Finkelstein, P. Klint, C.A. Middelburg, E.-R. Olderog, and H.A. Partsch. Ten further papers by members of the METEOR team are based on talks given at the workshop. The workshop was a successor to an earlier one held in Passau, Germany, June 1987, the proceedings of which were published as Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 394.