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                  <h1>Foundations of Programming Languages</h1>
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         </div><P>Foundations of programming languages is concerned with basic aspects of programming languages and the kinds of computation
         and structure that they describe. For example, research into <A href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_theory">type theory</A>,
         <A href="https://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/semantics+of+a+programming+language">semantics of programming languages</A>, <A href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_theory">domain
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