Compiling a 50-year journey

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Hutton, Graham and Bahr, Patrick (2017) Compiling a 50-year journey. Journal of Functional Programming, 27 . e20/1-e20/11. ISSN 1469-7653

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Fifty years ago, John McCarthy and James Painter (1967) published the first paper on compiler verification, in which they showed how to formally prove the correctness of a compiler that translates arithmetic expressions into code for a register-based machine. In this article, we revisit this example in a modern context, and show how such a compiler can now be calculated directly from a specification of its correctness using simple equational reasoning techniques.

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RIS ID: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/883824
Additional Information: This article has been published in a revised form in Journal of Functional Programming http://doi.org/Journal of Functional Programming. This version is free to view and download for private research and study only. Not for re-distribution, re-sale or use in derivative works. © Cambridge University Press 2017
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Science > School of Computer Science
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Depositing User: Hutton, Prof Graham
Date Deposited: 04 Oct 2017 09:37
Last Modified: 04 May 2020 19:07
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/46962

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