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Proceedings of the 18th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages table of contents

Orlando, Florida, United States

Pages: 311 - 322

Year of Publication: 1991

ISBN:0-89791-419-8

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Vaughn Pratt

Computer Science Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

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SIGPLAN: ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages
SIGACT: ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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