Programming with Higher-Order Logic

von Gopalan Nadathur, Dale Miller

322 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Formal systems that describe computations over syntactic structures occur frequently in computer science. Logic programming provides a natural framework for encoding and animating such systems. However, these systems often embody variable binding, a notion that must be treated carefully at a computational level. This book aims to show that a programming language based on a simply typed version of higher-order logic provides an elegant, declarative means for providing such a treatment. Three broad topics are covered in pursuit of this goal. First, a proof-theoretic framework that supports a general view of logic programming is identified. Second, an actual language called ¿Prolog is developed by applying this view to higher-order logic. Finally, a methodology for programming with specifications is exposed by showing how several computations over formal objects such as logical formulas, functional programs, and ¿-terms and ¿-calculus expressions can be encoded in ¿Prolog.

• Themen: Informatik und Informationstechnologie Computerprogrammierung und Softwareentwicklung Programmier- und Skriptsprachen, allgemein
• ISBN: 9780521879408
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 06.09.2012
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press