Induction, Domains, Calculi: Strachey's Contributions to Programming-Language Engineering

  • Authors:
  • David A. Schmidt

  • Affiliations:
  • Computing and Information Sciences Department, Kansas State University, 234 Nichols Hall, Manhattan, KS 66506 USA. schmidt@cis.ksu.edu

  • Venue:
  • Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

In collaboration with his colleagues at Oxford,Christopher Strachey pioneered the analysis of programming languagesin terms of semantic features. Three of Strachey'scontributions—inductive definition of semantics, semantic-domaindefinitions, and calculi for semantic description—are presented,and their consequences on languages research are described.Strachey's impact, present and future, on the computer programming“mainstream” is also outlined.