OXFORD UNIVERSITY COMPUTING LABORATORY

Programming Research Group Technical Monograph PRG-56

An Introduction to the Theory of Lists

Richard S Bird

October 1986, 101 pages, ISBN 0-902928-37-6

In these lectures we introduce a notation and a calculus for specifying and manipulating computable functions over lists. The calculus is used to derive efficient solutions for a number of problems, including problems in text processing. Although programming per se is not the main topic, we indicate briefly how these solutions can be implemented in a purely functional programming language.


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