The aim of this work is largely a practical one. A widely employed style of programming, particularly in structure-processing languages which impose no discipline of types, entails defining procedures which work well on objects of a wide variety. We present a formal type discipline for such polymorphic procedures in the context of a simple pro-gramming language, and a compile time type-checking algorithm w which enforces the discipline. A Semantic Soundness Theorem (based on a formal semantics for the language) states that well-type programs cannot “go wrong ” and a Syntactic Soundness Theorem states that if fl accepts a program then it is well typed. We also discuss extending these results to richer languages; a type-checking algorithm based on w is in fact already implemented and working, for the metalanguage ML in the Edinburgh LCF system, 1.

Stream processing is a term that is used widely in the literature to describe a variety of systems. We present an overview of the historical development of stream processing and a detailed discussion of the different languages and techniques for programming with streams that can be found in the literature. This includes an analysis of dataflow, specialized functional and logic programming with streams, reactive systems, signal processing systems, and the use of streams in the design and verification of hardware. The aim of this survey is an analysis of the development of each of these specialized topics to determine if a general theory of stream processing has emerged. As such, we discuss and classify the different classes of stream processing systems found in the literature from the perspective of programming primitives, implementation techniques, and computability issues, including a comparison of the semantic models that are used to formalize stream based computation.

This paper introduces the theory of a particular kind of computation domains called concrete domains. The purpose of this theory is to find a satisfactory framework for the notions of coroutine computation and sequentiality of evaluation. Diagrams are emphasized because I believe that an important part of learning lattice theory is the acquisition of skill in drawing diagrams. George Gratzer 1 Domains of computation In general, we follow Scott's approach [Sco70]. To every syntactic object one associates a semantic object which is found in an appropriate semantic domain. For technical details, we follow [Mil73] and [Plo78] rather than Scott. Definition 1.1 A partial order is a pair ! D; ? where D is a non-empty set and is a binary relation satisfying: i) 8x 2 D x x (reflexivity) ii) 8x; y 2 D x y; y x ) x = y (antisymmetry) iii) 8x; y; z 2 D x y; y z ) x z (transitivity) One writes x ! y when x y and x 6= y. Two elements x and y are comparable when either x y or y x. W...

Stream processing is a term that is used widely in the literature to describe a variety of systems. We present an overview of the historical development of stream processing and a detailed discussion of the different languages and techniques for programming with streams that can be found in the literature. This includes an analysis of reactive systems, specialized logic and functional programming, dataflow and the use of streams in the design and verification of hardware. In particular, we discuss and classify stream processing techniques from the perspective of programming primitives, implementation techniques, and computability issues. This includes a comparison of the different semantic models that are used to formalize stream based computation. 1 INTRODUCTION 2 1 Introduction Within computer science the term stream processing is used generically to refer to the study of a number of disparate systems. For example, dataflow systems, reactive systems, synchronous concurrent algorit...

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