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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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Date: | 2001-01-23 (21:58) |
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