TY  - BOOK
AU  - Miller,Dale
AU  - Nadathur,Gopalan
TI  - Programming with Higher-Order Logic
SN  - 9781139021326 (ebook)
AV  - QA76.63 .M554 2012
U1  - 005.1/15 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Logic programming
KW  - Prolog (Computer program language)
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016)
N2  - Formal systems that describe computations over syntactic structures occur frequently in computer science. Logic programming provides a natural framework for encoding and animating such systems. However, these systems often embody variable binding, a notion that must be treated carefully at a computational level. This book aims to show that a programming language based on a simply typed version of higher-order logic provides an elegant, declarative means for providing such a treatment. Three broad topics are covered in pursuit of this goal. First, a proof-theoretic framework that supports a general view of logic programming is identified. Second, an actual language called λProlog is developed by applying this view to higher-order logic. Finally, a methodology for programming with specifications is exposed by showing how several computations over formal objects such as logical formulas, functional programs, and λ-terms and π-calculus expressions can be encoded in λProlog
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139021326
ER  -