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TECHNICAL FOUNDATIONS IN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
Reference Materials
Terrence W. Pratt and Marvin V. Zelkowitz. Programming Languages: Design and Implementation. 4th Ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. 1995. Chapter 4.
C. Hankin. Lambda Calculi: A Guide for Computer Scientists. London: King’s College Publications. 2004.
Kenneth C. Louden. Programming Languages: Principles and Practice. 2d Ed. Belmont, CA: Thompson, Brooks/Cole. 2003. Chapters 9 and 13.
Web Sites
Wikipedia: search “lambda calculus”
9.1 INTRODUCTION
Early models of programming languages were very ad hoc simply because there was so little accumulated experience and research. In the early 1960s, the predominant theoretical model of computation was the Turing machine, ...
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