| A Theory of Objects Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Abadi, Martin (Author), Cardelli, Luca (Author) |
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ISBN: 1461264456 ISBN-13: 9781461264453 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $237.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | Programming - Object Oriented - Computers | Programming Languages - General - Computers | Software Development & Engineering - General |
| Dewey: 005.131 |
| Series: Monographs in Computer Science |
| Physical Information: 0.85" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.28 lbs) 396 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Procedural languages are generally well understood and their formal foundations cast in the forms of various lambda-calculi. For object- oriented languages however the situation is not as clear-cut. In this book the authors propose and develop a different approach by developing object calculi in which objects are treated as primitives. Using object calculi, the authors are able to explain both the semantics of objects and their typing rules and demonstrate how to develop all of the most important concepts of object-oriented programming languages: self, dynamic dispatch, classes, inheritance, protected and private methods, prototyping, subtyping, covariance and contravariance, and method specialization. Many researchers and graduate students will find this an important development of the underpinnings of object-oriented programming |