Abstract Computing Machines von Werner Kluge | A Lambda Calculus Perspective | ISBN 9783540211464

Abstract Computing Machines

A Lambda Calculus Perspective

von Werner Kluge
Buchcover Abstract Computing Machines | Werner Kluge | EAN 9783540211464 | ISBN 3-540-21146-2 | ISBN 978-3-540-21146-4
From the reviews:„This remarkable monograph is an extremely well-written and pleasant and reading about abstract computing machines … . The author chooses a somewhat ‘imperative’ approach to teaching, which results in the survey of a vast number of concepts provided with many useful examples. The expository style is most favourable, which could be of special value for a reader with no strong background in the area. … Altogether, this is a book worth reading.“ (Vladimir Komendantsky, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2007 k)

Abstract Computing Machines

A Lambda Calculus Perspective

von Werner Kluge

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.