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Programming Language Semantics using Miranda
Simon Thompson
Technical Report 9-95*, University of Kent, Computing Laboratory, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, May 1995.Abstract
This paper explains the use of the functional programming language Miranda as a vehicle for describing the semantics of imperative programming languages. In particular we give a Miranda denotational description of a substantial subset of a Pascal-like language, describing a number of variants of the semantics, including parameter passing by value-result, dynamic binding of values to names and a simple semantics of jumps.
We also give an executable operational semantics of our basic language, as well as a compiler for this language into a simple stack machine, which is itself modelled in Miranda.
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@techreport{59, author = {Simon Thompson}, title = {{Programming Language Semantics using Miranda}}, month = {May}, year = {1995}, pages = {182-196}, keywords = {determinacy analysis, Craig interpolants}, note = {}, doi = {}, url = {http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/1995/59}, address = {University of Kent, Canterbury, UK}, hensa_abstractfilename = {pub/misc/ukc.reports/comp.sci/abstracts/9-95}, hensa_ftpaddress = {unix.hensa.ac.uk}, hensa_reportfilename = {pub/misc/ukc.reports/comp.sci/reports/9-95.ps.Z}, institution = {University of Kent, Computing Laboratory}, number = {9-95*}, }