An Introduction to Action Semantics
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https://doi.org/10.7146/dpb.v20i370.6602Abstract
Formal semantics is a topic of major importance in the study of programming languages. Its applications include documenting language design, establishing standards for implementations, reasoning about programs, and generating compilers.
These notes introduce action semantics, a recently-developed framework for formal semantics. The primary aim of action semantics is to allow useful semantic descriptions of realistic programming languages.
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1991-11-01
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Mosses, P. D. (1991). An Introduction to Action Semantics. DAIMI Report Series, 20(370). https://doi.org/10.7146/dpb.v20i370.6602
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