
A Connotational Theory of Program Structure
James S. Royer(Author)
Springer (Publisher)
Published on 26. August 1987
Book
Paperback/Softback
VIII, 188 pages
978-3-540-18253-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book presents developments of a language independent theory of program structure. The theory features a simple, natural notion of control structure which is much broader than in other theories of programming languages such as denotational semantics and program schemes. This notion permits treatment of control structures which involve not only the denotation of programs (i.e., their input/output behavior), but also their structure, size, run times, etc. The theory also treats the relation of control structure and complexity properties of programming languages. The book focuses on expressive interdependencies of control structures (which control structures can be expressed by which others). A general method of proving control structures expressively independent is developed. The book also considers characterizations of the expressive power of general purpose programming languages in terms of control structures. Several new characterizations are presented and two compactness results for such characterizations are shown.
More details
Series
Edition
1987 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
VIII, 188 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
306 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-540-18253-5 (9783540182535)
DOI
10.1007/3-540-18253-5
Schweitzer Classification
Content
Motivations, background, and basic definitions.- Effective numberings, completions, and control structures.- Some special effective numberings.- Characterizations of acceptability.- Independence of control structures.- General programming properties of effective numberings of subrecursive classes.