The Parametric Lambda Calculus: A Metamodel for Computation (Texts in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series)

Ronchi Della Rocca, Simona; Paolini, Luca

ISBN 10: 3540200320 / ISBN 13: 9783540200321

Verlag: Springer, 2004

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Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers I-9783540200321

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• Titel: The Parametric Lambda Calculus: A Metamodel for Computation (Texts in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series)
• Verlag: Springer
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3540200320
• ISBN-13: 9783540200321
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: New

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The A-calculus was invented by Church in the 1930s with the purpose of sup­ plying a logical foundation for logic and mathematics [25]. Its use by Kleene as a coding for computable functions makes it the first programming lan­ guage, in an abstract sense, exactly as the Thring machine can be considered the first computer machine [57]. The A-calculus has quite a simple syntax (with just three formation rules for terms) and a simple operational seman­ tics (with just one operation, substitution), and so it is a very basic setting for studying computation properties. The first contact between A-calculus and real programming languages was in the years 1956-1960, when McCarthy developed the LISP programming language, inspired from A-calculus, which is the first "functional" program­ ming language, Le., where functions are first-dass citizens [66]. But the use of A-calculus as an abstract paradigm for programming languages started later as the work of three important scientists: Strachey, Landin and B6hm.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Simona Ronchi Della Rocca: Full Professor of Foundations of Computer Science since 1987, Member of the Editorial Board of TOCL (ACM Transactions on Computational Logic), Member of the Organizing Committee of LICS (Logic in Computer Science), Member of the Accademy of Sciences of Torino

Luca Paolini: PhD student in Computer Science and Discrete Mathematics, Università di Genova and Université de la Mediterranée.

 

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