English

The While language

Programming Languages 2016-04-13 v2

Abstract

This article presents a formalisation of a simple imperative programming language. The objective is to study and develop "hands-on" a formal specifcation of a programming language, namely its syntax, operational semantics and type system. To have an executable version of the language, we implemented in Racket its operational semantics and type system.

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@article{arxiv.1603.08949,
  title  = {The While language},
  author = {Cláudio Vasconcelos and António Ravara},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.08949},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

15 pages, 21 figures

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