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Author Royer, James S.

Title A connotational theory of program structure / James S. Royer
Published Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, ©1987

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Description 1 online resource (186 pages)
Series Lecture notes in computer science ; 273
Lecture notes in computer science ; 273.
Contents 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 -- Bibliography -- Notation Index -- Definition Index
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-181) and index
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Subject Programming languages (Electronic computers)
Computer programs.
Computer programming.
Recursive programming.
Software
software.
computer programming.
Recursive programming
Computer programming
Computer programs
Programming languages (Electronic computers)
Ordinateurs -- Programmation.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783540478461
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