Expressions in the programming language C have such an under-specified semantics that one might expect them to be non-deterministic. However, with the help of a mechanised formali...
Abstract. Formal grammars are well established for specifying the syntax of programming languages. However, the formal specification of programming language semantics has proven mo...
Persistent programming languages exhibit several requirements that affect the generation of native code, namely: garbage collection; arbitrary persistence of code, data and proces...
S. J. Bushell, Alan Dearle, Alfred L. Brown, Franc...
This paper outlines the history of the C++ programming language from the early days of its ISO standardization (1991), through the 1998 ISO standard, to the later stages of the C+...