Texts in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series: A Lambda Calculus Perspective

Kluge, Werner

The book addresses ways and means of organizing computations, highlighting the relationship between algorithms and the basic mechanisms and runtime structures necessary to execute them using machines. It completely abstracts from concrete programming languages and machine architectures, taking instead the lambda calculus as the basic programming and program execution model to design various abstract machines for its correct implementation. This book takes a lambda calculus approach to organizing computations. It sets out with a brief introduction to lambda calculus, describes a variant of the classical SECD-machine as a basic interpreter for the lambda calculus, and in the main part continues with fully normalizing abstract lambda calculus machines, of which some are interpreting and some execute compiled code.

Details

Published by: Springer

Publication Date: 2005-02-18

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783540211464

DOI: 10.1007/b138965

Dimensions: 235cm x155cm

Pages: 384