[ebook]The Functional Approach to programming with CAML torrent

Book Details
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Title : The functional approach to programming with CAML
Authors : Guy Cousineau, Michel Mauny
Pages : 447
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Publication Date : 1998
Format : DjVu
Ebook quality : Decent
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The functional approach to programming with CAML
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A programming course should concentrate as much as possible on a program's
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,and give examples of how complex programs from
a variety of areas(such as arithmetic,tree algorithms, graph algorithms,text
parsing and geometry) can be developed in close agreement with their
specifications.Many exercises and examples are included throughout the book;
solutions are also available.An appendix gives all the code used in the book in
Standard ML.
Guy Cousineau is a professor at École Normale Supérieure in Paris and head of
the computer science laboratory.
Michel Mauny is Directeur de Recherche at INRIA-Rocquencourt, and head of the
Cristal research team,where the CAML language is being developed.
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Chapters
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I- Basic Principles
1- Expressions
2- Data Structures
3- Semantics
4- Imperative Aspects
II- Applications
5- Formal Terms, Pattern Matching, Unification
6- Balanced Trees
7- Graphs and Problem Solving
8- Syntatic Analysis
9- Geometry and Drawings
10- Exact Arithmetic
III- Implementation
11- Evaluation
12- Compilation
13- Type Synthesis
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