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Cyril Slobin

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

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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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