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A simple, natural notation for application languages

by: MacLennan, Bruce J.

Publication date: 1982-09

Topics: HULLS (NAVAL ARCHITECTURE)--DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION--DATA PROCESSING., HULLS (NAVAL ARCHITECTURE)--MATHEMATICAL MODELS., SURFACES, ALGEBRAIC.

Publisher: Monterey, California : Naval Postgraduate School

Collection: navalpostgraduateschoollibrary; fedlink; americana

Contributor: Naval Postgraduate School, Dudley Knox Library

Language: en_US

"NPS-52-82-009"--Cover

Cover title

"September 1982."

"Chief of Naval Research, Arlington, Virginia 22217."

Includes bibliographical references

Technical report; 1982

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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