Reflections on the Work of C.A.R. Hoare [Hardcover]

Insight, Inspiration and Collaboration.- From CSP to Game Semantics.- On Mereologies in Computing Science.- Roles, Stacks, Histories: A Triple for Hoare.- Forward with Hoare.- Probabilistic Programming with Coordination.- The Operational Principle and Problem Frames.- The Role of Auxiliary Variables in the Formal Development of Concurrent Programs.- Avoid a Void: The Eradication of Null Dereferencing.- Unfolding CSP.- Quicksort: Combining Concurrency, Recursion, and Mutable Data Structures.- The Thousand-and-One Cryptographers.- On Process-Algebraic Extensions of Metric Temporal Logic.- Fun with Type Functions.- On CSP and the Algebraic Theory of Effects.- CSP is Expressive Enough for ?.- The Tokeneer Experiments.

From the reviews:

Hoare is one of my computer science idols. & This book was written to commemorate his 75th birthday, and contains the lectures that many of his past and present colleagues presented in honor of this occasion. & I did glean a great deal of information from the book. & the book is quite interesting & . the chapters have some connection to those areas of computing where Hoare has contributed profusely, and hence it is a fitting tribute to this extraordinary computing science visionary. (Sandeep Shukla, ACM Computing Reviews, February, 2012)

Thousands of different programming languages exist, and many more are being created each year, yet all those involved in such work must acknowledge that it is the highest goal of programming-language design to enable good ideas to be elegantly expressed These are the words of Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare, or Tony Hoare to his colleagues and friends, a man who has inspired generations of researchers in computer science. His work, grounded in practical programming, has had a profound impact on the evolution of the field. This includes the development of Hoare logic and Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP).

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