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TCS
2011
14 years 4 months ago
Strong normalization from an unusual point of view
A new complete characterization of β-strong normalization is given, both in the classical and in the lazy λ-calculus, through the notion of potential valuability inside two suit...
Luca Paolini, Elaine Pimentel, Simona Ronchi Della...

Book
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16 years 7 months ago
Introduction to Functional Programming
"These are the lecture notes accompanying the course Introduction to Functional Programming, which I taught at Cambridge University in the academic year 1996/1997."
John Harrison
DBPL
1991
Springer
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15 years 29 days ago
Structural Recursion as a Query Language
We propose a programming paradigm that tries to get close to both the semantic simplicity of relational algebra, and the expressive power of unrestricted programming languages. It...
Val Tannen, Peter Buneman, Shamim A. Naqvi
LFP
1990
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14 years 10 months ago
Operational and Axiomatic Semantics of PCF
PCF, as considered in this paper, is a lazy typed lambda calculus with functions, pairing, fixed-point operators and arbitrary algebraic data types. The natural equational axioms ...
Brian T. Howard, John C. Mitchell
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POPL
2009
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Lazy evaluation and delimited control
The call-by-need lambda calculus provides an equational framework for reasoning syntactically about lazy evaluation. This paper examines its operational characteristics. By a seri...
Ronald Garcia, Andrew Lumsdaine, Amr Sabry