Beginning with BETA, a range of programming language mechanisms such as virtual classes (class-valued attributes of objects) have been developed to allow inheritance in the presen...
Dave Clarke, Sophia Drossopoulou, James Noble, Tob...
Formal models serve in many roles in the programming language community. In its primary role, a model communicates the idea of a language design; the architecture of a language to...
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Abstract. Abstraction is essential in the formal specification of programs. A common way of writing abstract specifications is to specify implementations in terms of basic mathem...
ct 7 Applying finite-state verification techniques to software systems looks attractive because they are capable of detecting very subtle 8 defects in the logic design of these s...
Every program tells a story. Programming, then, is the art of constructing a story about the objects in the program and what they do in various situations. So-called programming l...