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An implementation on a particular machine cannot serve as a definitional vehicle for a programming language. For one thing, there are too many extraneous details that pertain to the target machine i.e., it is far too idiosyncratic to serve as a definition of a machine independent language. Indeed, it is not clear that all such implementation details are graspable. Certainly, someone trying to learn a language from studying an implementation would find it hard to distinguish the wood from the trees. And here the wood is the machine independent language, and a semantics is intended to define it.

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Date:Mar 2007
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