%0 Journal Article %1 mosses_06_formal %A Mosses, Peter D. %B Proceedings of the School of SegraVis Research Training Network on Foundations of Visual Modelling Techniques (FoVMT 2004) %D 2006 %J Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science %K 2006 overview semantics sos %N 1 %P 41--73 %R 10.1016/j.entcs.2005.12.012 %T Formal Semantics of Programming Languages: -- An Overview -- %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.entcs.2005.12.012 %V 148 %X These notes give an overview of the main frameworks that have been developed for specifying the formal semantics of programming languages. Some of the pragmatic aspects of semantic descriptions are discussed, including modularity, and potential applicability to visual and modelling languages. References to the literature provide starting points for further study.

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