1.1 Overview This chapter briefly describes: what this book is about what this book tries to do what this book tries not to do a useful feature of the book: the exercises. 1.2 What This Book Is About This book is about three key topics of computer science, namely computable lan guages, abstract machines, and logic. Computable languages are related to what are usually known as "formal lan guages." I avoid using the latter phrase here because later on in the book I distin guish between formal languages and computable languages. In fact, computable languages are a special type of formal...
1.1 Overview This chapter briefly describes: what this book is about what this book tries to do what this book tries not to do a useful feature of the...
