The Functional C Experience

Pieter H. Hartel, Henk Muller, Hugh Glaser

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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 conf. 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.
LanguageUndefined
Pages129-135
Number of pages7
JournalJournal of functional programming
Volume14
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 2004

Keywords

  • METIS-220247
  • IR-48626
  • SCS-Cybersecurity
  • EWI-747

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Hartel, Pieter H. ; Muller, Henk ; Glaser, Hugh. / The Functional C Experience. In: Journal of functional programming. 2004 ; Vol. 14, No. 2. pp. 129-135
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Hartel PH, Muller H, Glaser H. The Functional C Experience. Journal of functional programming. 2004 Mar;14(2):129-135. Available from, DOI: 10.1017/S0956796803004817

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