Practical use of a polymorphic applicative language

  • Authors:
  • Butler W. Lampson;Eric E. Schmidt

  • Affiliations:
  • Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, CA;Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, CA

  • Venue:
  • POPL '83 Proceedings of the 10th ACM SIGACT-SIGPLAN symposium on Principles of programming languages
  • Year:
  • 1983

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Abstract

Assembling a large system from its component elements is not a simple task. An adequate notation for specifying this task must reflect the system structure, accommodate many configurations of the system and many versions as it develops, and be a suitable input to the many tools that support software development. The language described here applies the ideas of λ-abstraction, hierarchical naming and type-checking to this problem. Some preliminary experience with its use is also given.