Structural Operational Semantics

Authors

  • Luca Aceto
  • Willem Jan Fokkink
  • Chris Verhoef

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7146/brics.v6i30.20099

Abstract

The importance of giving precise semantics to programming and specification
languages was recognized since the sixties with the development of the
first high-level programming languages (cf. e.g. [30, 206] for some early accounts).
The use of operational semantics - i.e. of a semantics that explicitly
describes how programs compute in stepwise fashion, and the possible
state-transformations they perform - was already advocated by McCarthy
in [147], and elaborated upon in references like [142, 143]. Examples of full-blown
languages that have been endowed with an operational semantics are
Algol 60 [140], PL/I [173], and CSP [178].

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Published

1999-01-30

How to Cite

Aceto, L., Fokkink, W. J., & Verhoef, C. (1999). Structural Operational Semantics. BRICS Report Series, 6(30). https://doi.org/10.7146/brics.v6i30.20099