Download or read book Semantics with Applications: An Appetizer written by Hanne Riis Nielson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-04-18 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Semantics will play an important role in the future development of software systems and domain-specific languages. This book provides a needed introductory presentation of the fundamental ideas behind these approaches, stresses their relationship by formulating and proving the relevant theorems, and illustrates the applications of semantics in computer science. Historically important application areas are presented together with some exciting potential applications. The text investigates the relationship between various methods and describes some of the main ideas used, illustrating these by means of interesting applications. The book provides a rigorous introduction to the main approaches to formal semantics of programming languages.