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Etaconversion for the languages of explicit substitutions. In seven chapters and two appendices the author describes lambda calculus, combinators, and functional programming, with a particular emphasis on his research in these areas. Combinatory logic and lambdacalculus, originally devised in the 1920s, have since developed into linguistic tools, especially useful in programming languages. The main purpose of the book is to provide computer science students and researchers with a firm background in lambdacalculus and combinators and show the applicabillity of these theories to functional programming. Normalization and partial evaluation page has been moved. Revesz, lambdacalculus combinators and functional programming. Church to logic is his invention of the lambda calculus. L ecture notes on functional programming by paulson pau 00. Lambdacalculus and combinators, an introduction combinatory logic and.
However, there are at least two categories of programming features that cannot. An introduction to the onedimensional theory with examples and exercises texts in applied mathematics. Lambdacalculus is treated here as a functional language and its relevance to computer science is clearly demonstrated. Combinators, sequential algorithms and functional programming. The first chapter introduces the concept of functional programming by contrasting the notions of variable in mathematics and in imperative programming languages. Various reasons for this situation will be discussed in the following paragraphs. Functional programming languages, like miranda, ml etcetera, are based on. Pdf the impact of the lambda calculus in logic and computer. A tutorial introduction to the lambda calculus arxiv. Reduction consists of replacing a part pof eby another expression p0 according to the given rewrite rules. Lambda calculus as a programming language computability background. Functional programming and parallel graph rewriting. This branch of pure mathematics forms the backbone of functional programming languages, and here it is presented through the concrete and familiar lens of javascript.
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