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[off-topic] Survey or book on programming language structures
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David Mentre
- Markus Mottl
- Xavier Leroy
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| From: | Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@i...> |
| Subject: | Re: [off-topic] Survey or book on programming language structures |
> I'm looking for a survey or a book describing the various ways to
> structure a program and its data (functionnal, object-oriented,
> imperative, abstract data types, ...). I would particularly be
> interested in a common framework where common issues (polymorphism,
> adaptability, abstractions, genericity, ...) are described and solved
> by each formalism.
I'm afraid such a framework doesn't exist yet, and this looks a lot
like an open research issue. There are some research papers that
might be relevant to your question, such as:
John C. Reynolds, "User-defined types and procedural data structures
as complementary approaches to data abstraction", pp 13-23 of
"Theoretical aspects of object-oriented programming", ed.
C. Gunter and J. Mitchell, MIT Press, 1994.
(Compares two ways to achieve representation hiding: the OO way and
the abstract type way.) But I cannot think of anything more
comprehensive.
Good luck,
- Xavier Leroy