A Tight, Practical Integration of Relations and Functions
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: October 29, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 169
ISBN-13: 9783540666448
Subjects: Artificial Intelligence; Programming languages; Logic programming; Formal Language Theory; Computers; Computers - General Information; Information Storage & Retrieval; Computer Books: Languages; General; Functional programming (Comput; Artificial Intelligence - General; Computational Logic; Computers / Artificial Intelligence; Functions; Horn-Clauses; RELFUN; Relational databases; Computer Science; Functional programming (Computer science)
First sentence: This overview considers research and development in integrated declarative programming based on the design, semantics, implementation, and use of the RELFUN (RELational-FUNctional) language.
Description: "This text considers the notions of relations, as found in logic programming or in relational databases, and of functions, as found in functional programming or in equational languages. We study a declarative integration which is tight because it takes place right at the level of these notions, and which is still practical because it preserves the advantage of the widely used relational and functional languages PROLOG and LISP.

The resulting relational and functional language, RELFUN, is used here for exemplifying all integration principles."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Lecture Notes in Computer Science