Implementing functional languages: a tutorial

Implementing functional languages: a tutorial

A practical approach to understanding implementations of non-strict functional languages using lazy graph reduction.

Publication date: 31 Dec 1992

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Implementing functional languages: a tutorial

Implementing functional languages: a tutorial A practical approach to understanding implementations of non-strict functional languages using lazy graph reduction.
Tag(s): Functional Programming
Publication date: 31 Dec 1992
ISBN-10: n/a
ISBN-13: n/a
Paperback: n/a
Views: 23,146
Document Type: N/A
Publisher: Prentice Hall
License: n/a
Post time: 24 Oct 2004 04:02:14
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This book gives a practical approach to understanding implementations of non-strict functional languages using lazy graph reduction. The book is intended to be a source of practical labwork material, to help make functional-language implementations 'come alive', by helping the reader to develop, modify and experiment with some non-trivial compilers.

The principal content of the book is a series of implementations of a small functional language called the Core language. The Core language is designed to be as small as possible, so that it is easy to implement, but still rich enough to allow modern non-strict functional languages to be translated into it without losing efficiency.
 




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Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research.

Simon Peyton Jones

Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research.


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David Lester

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