Abstract Computing Machines: A Lambda Calculus Perspective (Hardback)
Hardback or Cased Book 384 pages Feb 18, 2005
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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.
- Author:
- Werner Kluge
- Publisher:
- Springer
- Publication Date:
- Feb 18, 2005
- Number of pages:
- 384 pages
- Binding:
- Hardback or Cased Book
- ISBN-10:
- 3540211462
- ISBN-13:
- 9783540211464