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This book is an introduction to programming language theory using the proof assistant Agda.
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Front matter
Part 1: Logical Foundations
- Naturals: Natural numbers
- Induction: Proof by Induction
- Relations: Inductive definition of relations
- Equality: Equality and equational reasoning
- Isomorphism: Isomorphism and Embedding
- Connectives: Conjunction, disjunction, and implication
- Negation: Negation, with intuitionistic and classical logic
- Quantifiers: Universals and existentials
- Decidable: Booleans and decision procedures
- Lists: Lists and higher-order functions
Part 2: Programming Language Foundations
- Lambda: Introduction to Lambda Calculus
- Properties: Progress and Preservation
- DeBruijn: Intrinsically-typed de Bruijn representation
- More: Additional constructs of simply-typed lambda calculus
- Bisimulation: Relating reduction systems
- Inference: Bidirectional type inference
- Untyped: Untyped lambda calculus with full normalisation
- Confluence: Confluence of untyped lambda calculus
- BigStep: Big-step semantics of untyped lambda calculus
Part 3: Denotational Semantics
- Denotational: Denotational semantics of untyped lambda calculus
- Compositional: The denotational semantics is compositional
- Soundness: Soundness of reduction with respect to denotational semantics
- Adequacy: Adequacy of denotational semantics with respect to operational semantics
- ContextualEquivalence: Denotational equality implies contextual equivalence
Appendix
- Substitution: Substitution in the untyped lambda calculus
Back matter
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2020
- William Cook, University of Texas
- Jeremy Siek, Indiana University
- John Maraist, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
2019
- Dan Ghica, University of Birmingham
- Adrian King, San Francisco Types, Theorems, and Programming Languages Meetup
- Prabhakar Ragde, University of Waterloo
- Philip Wadler, University of Edinburgh
- Philip Wadler, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
2018
- Philip Wadler, University of Edinburgh
- David Darais, University of Vermont
- John Leo, Google Seattle
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