The Functional “C” experience
The Functional “C” experience
A functional programming language can be taught successfully as a first language, but if there is no follow up the students do not appreciate the functional approach. Following discussions concerning this issue at the 1995 FPLE conference (Hartel & Plasmeijer, 1995), we decided to develop such a follow up by writing a book that teaches C to students who can write simple functional programs. This paper summarises the essence of our approach, which is based on program transformation, and presents our experience teaching functional C at the Universities of Southampton and Bristol.
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Hartel, Pieter
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Muller, Henk
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Glaser, Hugh
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Peyton Jones, Simon L.
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Wadler, Philip L.
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March 2004
Hartel, Pieter
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Muller, Henk
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Glaser, Hugh
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Peyton Jones, Simon L.
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Wadler, Philip L.
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Hartel, Pieter, Muller, Henk and Glaser, Hugh
,
Peyton Jones, Simon L. and Wadler, Philip L.
(eds.)
(2004)
The Functional “C” experience.
Journal of Functional Programming, 14 (2), .
Abstract
A functional programming language can be taught successfully as a first language, but if there is no follow up the students do not appreciate the functional approach. Following discussions concerning this issue at the 1995 FPLE conference (Hartel & Plasmeijer, 1995), we decided to develop such a follow up by writing a book that teaches C to students who can write simple functional programs. This paper summarises the essence of our approach, which is based on program transformation, and presents our experience teaching functional C at the Universities of Southampton and Bristol.
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Published date: March 2004
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URI: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/258816
ISSN: 0956-7968
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Simon L. Peyton Jones
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Philip L. Wadler
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