Commentary by cpressey on Relational Programming works

Relational Methods in Computer Science

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Overview of relational programming

A report on a research program to develop a (point-free) relational programming language.

The investigation proceeds at the language design level only - implementation issues are hardly considered. A major concern of the language design is to be able to express operations on non-linear data (e.g. trees) (in contrast to e.g. APL's ability to manipulate linear data, e.g. matrices).

[Introduction to relational programming][] is an earlier report on the same research program, but the syntax has evolved between the two points. In particular, given that all functions are relations, function application is a subset of relation application, but the side on which the function is considered to be, has been swapped since the earlier paper.

Introduction to relational programming

[Overview of relational programming][] is probably a better paper, but this does contain some worked examples of relational programs (for payroll, etc.)

Relational programming

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A Short Skinny on Relations & the Algebra of Programming | Hey There Buddo!

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amb - The CHICKEN Scheme wiki

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