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The use of formal specifications in general, and for programming languages in particular, is based on the assumption that formal specifications have practical value, perhaps for a number of user categories. This chapter starts with a small section that motivates this assumption, followed by an overview of some of the formalisms that have been used for programming languages to date. It ends with a more detailed overview of our formalism of choice, viz. Natural Semantics.
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Pettersson, M. (1999). 2 Preliminaries. In: Compiling Natural Semantics. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1549. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10693148_2
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