For my part, I think it’s unfortunate that virtually no mainstream language has a formal semantics in the style of SML’s Definition. I wrote a bit about formal programming language semantics in a series of posts: https://azdavis.net/posts/define-pl-01/
There was some past discussion about it on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32512715
For my part, I think it’s unfortunate that virtually no mainstream language has a formal semantics in the style of SML’s Definition. I wrote a bit about formal programming language semantics in a series of posts: https://azdavis.net/posts/define-pl-01/