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Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Turner, D. A.
Abstract	In what does the alleged superiority of applicative languages consist? In the last analysis the answer must be in terms of the reduction in the time required to produce a correct program to solve a given problem. On reflection I decided that the best way to demonstrate this would be to take some reasonably non-trivial problem and show how, by proceeding within a certain kind of applicative language framework it was possible to develop a working solution with a fraction of the effort that would have been necessary in a conventional imperative language. The particular problem I have chosen also brings out a number of general points of interest which I shall discuss briefly afterwards. Before proceeding it will be necessary for me to quickly outline the language framework within which we shall be working. Very briefly it can be summarised as (non-strict, higher order) recursion equations + set abstraction. Obviously what matters are the underlying semantic concepts, not the particular syntax that is used to express them, but for the sake of definiteness I shall use the notation of KRC (&equil; “Kent RecUrsive Calculator”), an applicative programming system implemented at the University of Kent [Turner 81]. KRC is fairly closely based on the earlier language SASL, [Turner 763, but I have added a facility for set abstraction.
Starting Page	85
Ending Page	92
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0897910605
DOI	10.1145/800223.806766
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	1981-10-18
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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