Reflections on the Work of C.A.R. Hoare

Insight, Inspiration and CollaborationC. B. Jones and A. W. RoscoeFrom CSP to Game SemanticsSamson AbramskyOn Mereologies in Computing ScienceDines BjørnerRoles, Stacks, Histories: A Triple for HoareJohannes Borgstrom, Andrew D. Gordon and Riccardo PucellaForward with HoareMike Gordon and Helene CollavizzaProbabilistic Programming with CoordinationHe JifengThe Operational Principle and Problem FramesMichael JacksonThe Role of Auxiliary Variables in the Formal Development of Concurrent ProgramsCliff B. JonesAvoid a Void: The Eradication of Null DereferencingBertrand Meyer, Alexander Kogtenkov and Emmanuel StapfUnfolding CSPMikkel Bundgaard and Robin MilnerQuicksort: Combining Concurrency, Recursion, and Mutable Data StructuresDavid Kitchin, Adrian Quark and Jayadev MisraThe Thousand-and-One CryptographersAK McIver and CC MorganOn Process-algebraic Extensions of Metric Temporal LogicChristoph Haase, Joel Ouaknine and James WorrellFun with Type FunctionsOleg Kiselyov, Simon Peyton Jones and Chung-chieh ShanOn CSP and the Algebraic Theory of EffectsRob van Glabbeek and Gordon PlotkinCSP is Expressive Enough for ?A.W. RoscoeThe Tokeneer ExperimentsJim Woodcock, Emine Gokce Aydal and Rod Chapman

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).
Reflections on the Work of C.A.R. Hoare presents a comprehensive edited survey of all aspects of these subjects, with original contributions by more than 30 international leaders in the field. The book, while honoring Hoare's important contributions, assembles a collection of chapters showing the state of the art in programming languages, sequential programs, concurrency, and unified theories of programming.
Topics and features:

• Provides a scientific biography of Tony Hoare
• Demonstrates a principled combination of CSP and functional programming, and a CSP semantics for the π-calculus
• Reviews methods for proving Hoare formulae
• Investigates developments in game semantics and semantics based on the state monad
• Examines the satisfiability problem, void safety, and issues of auxiliary variables
• Introduces type families in Haskell and a description of Quicksort in Orc
• Describes an experiment using the Tokeneer archive, and a correctness proof of cryptographic protocols based on the Shadow Security model
• Presents a representation of CSP as a bigraphical reactive system, and shows how simple entities can be related to CSP processes
• Discusses the problem-frames approach, and explores algebraic properties of the new programming combinators

This accessible monograph is an ideal overview of theoretical and empirical evolution in programming logic and semantics of programming languages. It will serve as an invaluable resource for professionals, researchers, libraries, and students who are interested in broadening their knowledge in all of the areas covered.

Written in honor of Sir Tony Hoare's 75th birthday Discusses the influence of Sir Tony Hoare's work on current research Provides a scientific biography of Sir Tony Hoare
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras