Lecture 2: Semantics via Interpreters In Lecture 1, we learned that any formalization of a programming language has two components: Syntax defines what programs are —their "shape" or "structure".

The semantics are defined for a number of meta-instructions which perform operations essential to the writing of programs in multiprogrammed computer systems. These meta-instructions relate to ...

Steve Lewin-Berlin, VP of Engineering and Operations for CilkArts, has written an interesting introspective post on why using serial semantics in a natively parallel programming construct is the cat’s ...

Abstract In the exploratory programming practice, programmers iteratively ask questions and run experiments to understand and develop software systems. However, traditional exploratory programming ...

Many years of fruitful interaction between logic programming and non monotonic reasoning have resulted in the definition of an immense number of semantics for logic programs. Only recently, however, ...

Foundations of Probabilistic Logic Programming aims at providing an overview of the field with a special emphasis on languages under the Distribution Semantics, one of the most influential approaches.

Probabilistic Programming Language: A specialised language that integrates probability theory into its syntax and semantics, allowing for the concise specification of complex statistical models ...