SDE 3 Proceedings of the third ACM SIGSOFT/SIGPLAN software engineering symposium on Practical software development environments
The ergo support system: an integrated set of tools for prototyping integrated environments
SDE 3 Proceedings of the third ACM SIGSOFT/SIGPLAN software engineering symposium on Practical software development environments
A meta-environment for generating programming environments
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Memoization in top-down parsing
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Types and programming languages
Types and programming languages
The Definition of Standard ML
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A Tool to Support Formal Reasoning about Computer Languages
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Reasoning with the Formal Definition of Standard ML in HOL
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Encoding Natural Semantics in Coq
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Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Higher Order Logic Theorem Proving and Its Applications
Implementation and applications of Scott's logic for computable functions
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The machine-assisted proof of programming language properties
The machine-assisted proof of programming language properties
FreshML: programming with binders made simple
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TinkerType: a language for playing with formal systems
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A machine-checked model for a Java-like language, virtual machine, and compiler
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Proceedings of the 35th annual ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages
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The java module system: core design and semantic definition
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SASyLF: an educational proof assistant for language theory
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Dependent types and program equivalence
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Ott: Effective tool support for the working semanticist
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It is rare to give a semantic definition of a full-scale programming language, despite the many potential benefits. Partly this is because the available metalanguages for expressing semantics - usually either LaTEX for informal mathematics, or the formal mathematics of a proof assistant - make it much harder than necessary to work with large definitions. We present a metalanguage specifically designed for this problem, and a tool, ott, that sanity-checks such definitions and compiles them into proof assistant code for Coq, HOL, Isabelle, and (in progress) Twelf, together with LaTEX code for production-quality typesetting, and OCaml boilerplate. The main innovations are:(1) metalanguage design to make definitions concise, and easy to read and edit;(2) an expressive but intuitive metalanguage for specifying binding structures; and (3) compilation to proof assistant code. This has been tested in substantial case studies, including modular specifications of calculi from the TAPL text, a Lightweight Java with Java JSR 277/294 module system proposals, and a large fragment of OCaml (around 306 rules), with machine proofs of various soundness results. Our aim with this work is to enable a phase change: making it feasible to work routinely, without heroic effort, with rigorous semantic definitions of realistic languages.