The book addresses ways and means of organizing computations, highlighting the relationship between algorithms and the basic mechanisms and runtime structures necessary to execute them using machines. It completely abstracts from concrete programming languages and machine architectures, taking instead the lambda calculus as the basic programming and program execution model to design various abstract machines for its correct implementation. This book takes a lambda calculus approach to organizing computations. It sets out with a brief introduction to lambda calculus, describes a variant of the classical SECD-machine as a basic interpreter for the lambda calculus, and in the main part continues with fully normalizing abstract lambda calculus machines, of which some are interpreting and some execute compiled code.
| ISBN: | 9783540211464 |
| Publication date: | 18th February 2005 |
| Author: | Werner Kluge, European Association for Theoretical Computer Science |
| Publisher: | Springer an imprint of Springer Berlin Heidelberg |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 384 pages |
| Series: | Texts in Theoretical Computer Science : An EATCS Series |
| Genres: |
Compilers and interpreters Mathematical theory of computation |
The book addresses ways and means of organizing computations, highlighting the relationship between algorithms and the basic mechanisms and runtime structures necessary to execute them using machines. It completely abstracts from concrete programming languages and machine architectures, taking instead the lambda calculus as the basic programming and program execution model to design various abstract machines for its correct implementation. This book takes a lambda calculus approach to organizing computations. It sets out with a brief introduction to lambda calculus, describes a variant of the classical SECD-machine as a basic interpreter for the lambda calculus, and in the main part continues with fully normalizing abstract lambda calculus machines, of which some are interpreting and some execute compiled code.
Abstract Computing Machines features in the following genres: Compilers and interpreters, Mathematical theory of computation
Abstract Computing Machines is available in Hardback
Abstract Computing Machines was written by Werner Kluge, European Association for Theoretical Computer Science and published by Springer an imprint of Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Abstract Computing Machines has 384 pages
Yes it is part of Texts in Theoretical Computer Science : An EATCS Series series