Foundations of Object-Oriented Languages

Types and Semantics

Kim B. Bruce (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

406 Seiten

2002
MIT Press (Verlag)
978-0-262-52573-2 (ISBN)

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A presentation of the formal underpinnings of object-oriented programming languages.

In recent years, object-oriented programming has emerged as the dominant computer programming style, and object-oriented languages such as C++ and Java enjoy wide use in academia and industry. This text explores the formal underpinnings of object-oriented languages to help the reader understand the fundamental concepts of these languages and the design decisions behind them. The text begins by analyzing existing object-oriented languages, paying special attention to their type systems and impediments to expressiveness. It then examines two key features: subtypes and subclasses. After a brief introduction to the lambda calculus, it presents a prototypical object-oriented language, SOOL, with a simple type system similar to those of class-based object-oriented languages in common use. The text offers proof that the type system is sound by showing that the semantics preserves typing information. It concludes with a discussion of desirable features, such as parametric polymorphism and a MyType construct, that are not yet included in most statically typed object-oriented languages.

Kim B. Bruce is Frederick Latimer Wells Professor of Computer Science at Williams College.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.3.2002
Reihe/Serie	Foundations of Object-Oriented Languages
Zusatzinfo	100 illus
Verlagsort	Cambridge, Mass.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	203 x 229 mm
Gewicht	930 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Programmiersprachen / -werkzeuge
	Informatik ► Software Entwicklung ► Objektorientierung
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium
ISBN-10	0-262-52573-9 / 0262525739
ISBN-13	978-0-262-52573-2 / 9780262525732
Zustand	Neuware