Implementing functional languages

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• RiderOfGiraffes · Jul 25, 2009 · Recommends

  …is not the same thing as "Non-strict Semantics", but "Term Re-Writing" is closely allied with "Graph Reduction. Simon Peyton-Jones' books "The Implementation of Functional Programming Languages" and "Implementing Functional Languages: a tutorial" are excellent works. Now out of print, they can both be found on-line. The following references also help ... http://www.google.com/search?q=implementing+functional+langu... http://www.google.com/search?q=graph+reduction+term+rewritin...

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• toolslive · Dec 24, 2015 · Recommends

  "Implementing functional languages: a tutorial" Simon Peyton Jones http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/Papers... Is very good and shows different strategies for the runtime.

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• Joker_vD · Sep 15, 2020 · Recommends

  …cover imperative languages (although Appel & Ginsburg devote a chapter on functional languages, both of strict and lazy variety and discuss some optimization challenges), so if you want to learn about implementing functional languages... S. L. Peyton Jones et al. "The Implementation of Functional Programming Languages" (1987) A. W. Appel "Compiling with Continuations" (1992) Holy fatcats, those are some old books! But sadly, I am…

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• mcguire · May 6, 2014 · Mentions

  …additionally, there is the Essentials of Programming Languages[5], Paul Wilson's An Introduction to Scheme and its Implementation[6], and some things I haven't read, like Simon Peyton Jones and David Lester's Implementing functional languages: a tutorial[7]. [1] http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Write_Yourself_a_Scheme_in_48_H... [2] http://norvig.com/lispy.html [3] http://norvig.com/lispy2.html [4] http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html…

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