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Readers of the Types Forum might be interested in this book. For more
information, please visit http://mitpress.mit.edu/026202523X/
Foundations of Object-Oriented Languages
Types and Semantics
Kim B. Bruce
In recent years, object-oriented programming has emerged as the dominant
computer programming style, and object-oriented languages such as C++ and
Java enjoy wide use in academia and industry. This text explores the formal
underpinnings of object-oriented languages to help the reader understand the
fundamental concepts of these languages and the design decisions behind them.
The text begins by analyzing existing object-oriented languages, paying
special attention to their type systems and impediments to expressiveness. It
then examines two key features: subtypes and subclasses. After a brief
introduction to the lambda calculus, it presents a prototypical
object-oriented language, SOOL, with a simple type system similar to those of
class-based object-oriented languages in common use. The text offers proof
that the type system is sound by showing that the semantics preserves typing
information. It concludes with a discussion of desirable features, such as
parametric polymorphism and a MyType construct, that are not yet included in
most statically typed object-oriented languages.
Kim B. Bruce is Frederick Latimer Wells Professor of Computer Science at
Williams College.
8 x 9, 376 pp., 100 illus, cloth, ISBN 0-262-02523-X
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