[+arjun, +joe, +ankur, +philippa, +gareth]
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 11:34 PM, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt <sa...@ccs.neu.edu>wrote: > On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Michael Dyck <jmd...@ibiblio.org> wrote: > > Andreas Rossberg wrote: > >> > >> > >> FWIW, there are at least two serious efforts of actually formalising > >> and mechanising the JavaScript language, i.e. its _semantics_, which > >> is a much more interesting endeavor. > > > > > > Could you give (or point me to) details of these projects? > > > > I've done some work along these lines (though I'm not sure it qualifies > > as "serious"), so I'm wondering if I'm just reinventing the work of > > others. > > The two projects Andreas is referring to are: > > S5 and LambdaJS, by Arjun Guha and others: http://www.jswebtools.org/ > Another, unnamed semantics, by Ankur Taly and others: http://jssec.net/ See also http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/37199.pdffor a description of Ankur's semantics for SES-on-ES5. Both semantics have been used as the basis for further work by other groups, such as the JSCert group you link to above. (Btw, I am in London right now in order to meet with them this Monday and Tuesday. I'll also be doing a presentation on Dr. SES at Imperial on Monday.) > > > S5, which covers (almost) all of ES5, is still under development, and > passes a large portion of Test262. > > Sam > _______________________________________________ > es-discuss mailing list > es-discuss@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss > -- Cheers, --MarkM
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