A Discipline of ProgrammingExecutional abstraction; The role of programming languages; States and their characterization; The characterization of semantics; The semantic characterization of a programming language; Two theorems; On the design of properly terminating; Euclid's algorithm revisited; The formal treatment of some small examples; The linear search theorem; The problem of the next permutation. |
Contents
THE ROLE OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES | 7 |
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE | 24 |
5 | 37 |
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active scope ALGOL 60 algorithm allsix alternative construct array variable assignment statement ax.dom ax.hib ax.lob begin glocon boolean bucket C.A.R. Hoare Cartesian product chapter ckey clockwise boundary colour computation context convex hull current hull decrease defined definition denote divisor domain Dutch national flag element empty End of note End of remark established Euclid's algorithm execution finite formal function GCD(x given greatest common divisor guaranteed implies initializing statement inner block inspected integer introduce invariant relation kfac Linear Search machine maximal strong component mechanism nondeterminacy oldfile operation pebble possible post-condition predicate transformer privar problem programming language q.high repetitive construct semantics separation of concerns sequence set(i shortest solution statement list subset termination theorem tion true ultraviolet branches vertex vertices violet branch vir int array virvar weakest pre-condition wlp(S wp(DO wp(IF wp(S wp(SL x.norm xnext y.key
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