Functional Approach to Programming

Name: Functional Approach to Programming
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ISBN: 9780521576819

ISBN-10: 0521576814

ISBN-13: 9780521576819

Edition: 1998

Authors: Guy Cousineau, Michel Mauny, Kathleen Callaway, Jean Glasberg, Kate Ruttle

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A programming course should concentrate as much as possible on a programs logical structure and design rather than simply show how to write code. The Functional Approach to Programming achieves this aim because logical concepts are evident and programs are transparent so can be written quickly and cleanly. In this book the authors emphasise the notions of function and function application which relate programming to familiar concepts from mathematics and logic. They introduce functional programming via examples but also explain what programs compute and how to reason about them. They show how the ideas can be implemented in the Caml language, a dialect of the ML family, and give examples of…

Book details

List price: $84.99
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/29/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 460
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English



Introduction



Basic Principles



Expressions



Data structures



Semantics



Imperative aspects



Applications



Exact arithmetic



Formal terms, filtering, and unification



Balanced trees



Graphs and problem resolution



Syntactic analysis



Geometry and designs



Implementation



Evaluation



Compilation



Types and typing



Help for Caml Light 0.6



How to Get Caml, MLgraph, and the examples


Bibliography


Index