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Principles of Program Analysis

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As the title suggests the book discusses various approaches to program analysis and it discusses these approaches is pretty good detail, though purely theoretical with small WHILE languages. It would have helped to have used a real live example by considering a small chunk of any of the generally used languages. It has good appendices that covers on some mathematical concepts but be warned you need know your math, the kind described in Glynn winskel or John reynolds book, before you dig into this one.

I rate it as 4 star as it gives the information on how to approach program analysis from the theoretical side. Also, reading it made my life easy when working with some code on flow analysis. I would say it definitely requires 2 readings for the info to settle inside. The appendix on Partially Ordered Sets is much more comprehendable than in Winskel.

In simple words, if u r good at theoritcal math used with languages and are interested in implementing and understanding various analysis that can be performed on programs then this is book would be a great aid.

I help my classmate bought this book! it is a classic book !
but I think it is a little expensive !

As a graduate student in programming languages, I'm finding this textbook a very useful tool to help bring me up to speed. It really helps in understanding theoretical papers on various kinds of static analyses. The book benefits from its segmented approach, so the sections on type and effect systems and data flow analysis, for instance, can be read independently without much of an interdependency.

I had to get this book for our Program Analysis class. The content seems decent, although I am haven't read enough of it to say too much. The exercises were helpful, and difficult (or tedious). However, the book felt apart in the middle of the semester. Pages were falling off quickly, and I haven't even really read much of it. I really don't like books that breaks since then I have to spend a lot of attention at arranging the pages and worrying about missing pages.