A Simple, Natural Notation for Applicative Languages.

Abstract

Many non-specialists are intimidated by the mathematical appearance of most applicative, functional, and very-high-level languages. This report presents a simple notation that has an unintimidating, natural-language appearance and that can be adapted to a variety of languages. The paper demonstrates its use as an alternate syntax for LISP, PROLOG, Backus' FP, relational programming, and relational database retrievals. The grammar's eight productions can be handled by a simple recursive-descent parser. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADA120700

Entities

People

  • Bruce J MacLennan

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Databases
  • Grammars
  • High Level Languages
  • Language
  • Linguistics
  • Military Research
  • Natural Languages
  • Notation
  • Programming Languages
  • Relational Databases
  • Technical Information Centers
  • Vocabulary

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

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  • Computational Linguistics