Nils M Holm

"Zen Style Programming"

Język angielski, miękka okładka, 336 stron.

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The primary purpose of programs is to be understood by fellow human beings, hence programming languages should have certain properties:

• Small size and uniformity

• Unambiguousness

• A high degree of abstraction

• Architectural neutrality

The first part of this book introduces the concept of functional programming and describes a purely symbolic language that fulfills these requirements. This language is a minimalistic variant of Scheme whose only data types are symbols and ordered pairs. Nothing else is required to describe algorithms for solving a variety of different problems.

The second part of the book shows how to apply the techniques of symbolic programming to some problems of varying complexity. The topics discussed in this part range from simple functions for sorting or permuting lists to "lazy" data structures, regular expression matching, formal language translation, and declarative programming.

The third part, finally, shows how to implement the abstraction layer that is necessary for solving problems in an abstract way on a concrete computer. It reproduces the complete and heavily annoted source code for an interpreter of symbolic LISP and provides an example of clear and readable C code.