Calculating Correct Compilers
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In this talk, you will learn a new approach to the problem of calculating compilers. In particular, you will explore developing a simple but general technique that allows you to derive correct compilers from high-level semantics by systematic calculation, with all the required compilation machinery falling naturally out of the calculation process.
The approach is based upon the use of standard equational reasoning techniques, and has been applied to calculate compilers for a wide range of language features and their combination. During the talk, you will discover the basic ideas using a small example language.
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Calculating Correct Compilers
Graham Hutton
Graham Hutton is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham. He has served as an editor of the Journal of Functional Programming, Chair of the Haskell Symposium and the International Conference on Functional Programming, Vice-Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages, and he is an ACM Distinguished Scientist. His research interests are in developing simple but powerful techniques for writing and reasoning about programs, by recognising and exploiting their underlying mathematical structure. A new edition of his book Programming in Haskell was published in 2016.
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In this talk, you will learn a new approach to the problem of calculating compilers. In particular, you will explore developing a simple but general technique that allows you to derive correct compilers from high-level semantics by systematic calculation, with all the required compilation machinery falling naturally out of the calculation process.
The approach is based upon the use of standard equational reasoning techniques, and has been applied to calculate compilers for a wide range of language features and their combination. During the talk, you will discover the basic ideas using a small example language.
View the pdf publication here.
Thanks to our sponsors
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About the Speaker
Calculating Correct Compilers
Graham Hutton
Graham Hutton is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham. He has served as an editor of the Journal of Functional Programming, Chair of the Haskell Symposium and the International Conference on Functional Programming, Vice-Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages, and he is an ACM Distinguished Scientist. His research interests are in developing simple but powerful techniques for writing and reasoning about programs, by recognising and exploiting their underlying mathematical structure. A new edition of his book Programming in Haskell was published in 2016.