In 1986, Allyn and Bacon published my
Denotational Semantics text, which I wrote while I was a
post-doc in Edinburgh in 1982-83. The book sold steadily over the years,
but Allyn and Bacon was purchased by William C. Brown, which was purchased
by McGraw-Hill. McGraw-Hill deleted the text as soon as they acquired it.
When the book was deleted, its publication rights returned to me. I had no interest in revising and reprinting it, but from time to time I've mailed photocopies of the text to various people.
Recently, the requests for copies have increased, so I have salvaged the troff source of the text and have used groff to produce acceptable postscript files. I am making the results publically available, with the caveat that you get what you pay for. (-:
Here is the text, packaged in both ps- and pdf-formats:
I would like to thank Mr. Josh Cogliati, who repaired the files so that they are compatible with Postscript Version 3.After you gunzip/unzip the files, please read the enclosed README file so that you understand exactly what you have obtained for free.
You are welcome to send comments/questions to me at schmidt@cis.ksu.edu.
--- Dave Schmidt, 25 May 2005
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