@book{gunter-1992-semantics,
author = {Gunter, Carl A.},
title = {Semantics of programming languages: structures and techniques},
year = {1992},
isbn = {0262071436},
publisher = {MIT Press},
address = {Cambridge, MA, USA}
}
Semantics of Programming Languages exposes the basic motivations and philosophy underlying the applications of semantic techniques in computer science. It introduces the mathematical theory of programming languages with an emphasis on higher-order functions and type systems.
Basic connections between computational behavior, denotational semantics, and the equational logic of functional programs are thoroughly and rigorously developed. Topics covered include models of types, operational semantics, category theory, domain theory, fixed point (denotational) semantics, full abstraction and other semantic correspondence criteria, types and evaluation, type checking and inference, parametric polymorphism, and subtyping.