The Functional C Experience

Pieter H. Hartel; Henk Muller; Hugh Glaser

doi:10.1017/S0956796803004817

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.

Original language	Undefined
Pages (from-to)	129-135
Number of pages	7
Journal	Journal of functional programming
Volume	14
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956796803004817
Publication status	Published - Mar 2004

Keywords

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

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