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Cyril Slobin  
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 More options 12 Dec 2008, 06:20
From: "Cyril Slobin" <cy...@slobin.pp.ru>
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 09:20:35 +0300
Local: Fri 12 Dec 2008 06:20
Subject: Re: Beginnings - History of Declarative Languages

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 5:12 AM, Daniel Jomphe <danieljom...@gmail.com> wrote:
>      The European Experience (that is, the rest)

       The Soviet Experience

       1966    USSR        Refal

Or you can call it anti-soviet experience: the inventor of Refal,
Valentin Turchin, was a political dissident and emigrated to US from
USSR in 1977. The language itself features pattern-based tree
rewriting rules (think of XSLT of 60's). Refal was used as a base in
metacompilation research (on which a partial evaluation is probably
the simplest example). The language is barely known in modern
declarative languages lore, but worth to look at nevertheless.

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http://slobin.pp.ru/ `When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said,
<cy...@slobin.pp.ru> `it means just what I choose it to mean'


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