Invited Talk: Pointwise Relational Programming

  • Authors:
  • Oege de Moor;Jeremy Gibbons

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • AMAST '00 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Algebraic Methodology and Software Technology
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

The point-free relational calculus has been very successful as a language for discussing general programming principles. However, when it comes to specific applications, the calculus can be rather awkward to use: some things are more clearly and simply expressed using variables. The combination of variables and relational combinators such as converse and choice yields a kind of nondeterministic functional programming language. We give a semantics for such a language, and illustrate with an example application.