Grammars for functional languages

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Abstract

In the 1977 Turing award lecture [1] Backus introduced the applicative language FP and extended the language in [2]. It is a language driven by the notion of functional composition. Following the standard mathematical approach the method of evaluation was an innermost first composition driven strategy.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCSC '86: Proceedings of the 1986 ACM fourteenth annual conference on Computer science
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages155-163
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)0897911776, 9780897911771
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 1 1986
Event1986 ACM 14th Annual Conference on Computer Science - Cincinnati, United States
Duration: Feb 4 1986Feb 6 1986
Conference number: 14

Conference

Conference1986 ACM 14th Annual Conference on Computer Science
Abbreviated titleCSC 1986
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityCincinnati
Period2/4/862/6/86

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • General Computer Science

Keywords

  • Language and languages
  • Semantics (Philosophy)
  • Construction grammar

Disciplines

  • Computer Sciences
  • Engineering
  • Mathematics
  • Physical Sciences and Mathematics

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