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A Theory of Objects

Texts and monographs in computer sciencePublished 1 January 1996
Martı́n Abadi, Luca Cardelli
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TL;DR

This book takes a novel approach to the understanding of object-oriented languages by introducing object calculi and developing a theory of objects around them, which covers both the semantics of objects and their typing rules.

Abstract

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. I

Keywords

Computer Science