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  1. Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!news.larc.nasa.gov!lynx.larc.nasa.gov!goodrich
  3. From: goodrich@lynx.larc.nasa.gov (Mike Goodrich)
  4. Subject: Re: Definitions
  5. Message-ID: <BtAIzF.7wJ@news.larc.nasa.gov>
  6. Sender: news@news.larc.nasa.gov (USENET Network News)
  7. Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA  USA
  8. References:  <9910@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
  9. Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 16:26:02 GMT
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  11.  
  12. In article <9910@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>, michaeln@cs.uq.oz.au (Michael Norris) writes:
  13. |> A quick question.
  14. |> 
  15. |> Where can I find good definitions of the words relating to
  16. |> functional programming? I could make up definitions, but I'd
  17. |> rather use accepted ones and refer to the source than take
  18. |> the responsibility myself with the risk of defining things
  19. |> wrongly, which would be distinctly bad form.
  20. |> 
  21. |> Specifically,
  22. |>     coersion
  23. |>     combinator
  24. |>     eager evaluation
  25. |>     high-order function
  26. |>     lazy evaluation
  27. |>     list comprehension
  28. |>     pattern matching
  29. |>     polymorphic
  30. |>     side-effects
  31. |>     strictly functional
  32. |> 
  33. |> thanks in advance.
  34. |> 
  35. |> -Michael N.    (e-mail: michaeln@cs.uq.oz.au)
  36.  
  37. I am currently reading "Functional Programming: Practice and Theory"
  38. by Bruce J. MacLennan and highly recommend it.
  39.  
  40.  
  41. ...mike
  42.