A TAXONOMY FOR THE SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS OF PROGRAMS

Lee, J. A. N. (1975) A TAXONOMY FOR THE SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS OF PROGRAMS. Technical Report CS75013-R, Computer Science, Virginia Tech.

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Abstract

A comparison is made between the competence and performance models of Chomsky and the two elements of syntax proposed by McCarthy. These concepts are then expanded over utterances in natural languages and programs from programming languages, to cover the syntax of a program, the underlying abstract elements of the program, the meaning of the program, the algorithm which the program represents, the program itself and the statement of the problem being solved.

Item Type:	Departmental Technical Report
Subjects:	Computer Science > Historical Collection(Till Dec 2001)
ID Code:	794
Deposited By:	Administrator, Eprints
Deposited On:	27 April 2006