The Functional “C” experience

Authors:
Pieter Hartel;Henk Muller;Hugh Glaser
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science, University of Twente, The Netherlands (e-mail: pieter@cs.utwente.nl);Department of Computer Science, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK (e-mail: henkm@cs.bris.ac.uk);Department of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK (e-mail: hg@ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Venue:
Journal of Functional Programming
Year:
2004

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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.