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FPs↑
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FAC(ID:1223/fac001)

Functional alternative to APL 

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Country: United States
Designed 1986
Published: 1986
Genus: Lazy Evaluation FPs
Sammet category: Specialised Languages

Functional Array Calculator. APL-like but purely functional and lazy, allowing infinite arrays.

Co-developed at Yale by Hai-Chen Tu with Alan Perlis, who was a longtime advocate of array-centred programming.


Structures:
Related languages
APL → FAC   Augmentation of
References:
  • Hai-Chen Tu, and Alan J. Perlis (1985) Hai-Chen Tu, and Alan J. Perlis "FAC: A Functional APL Language" Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, January 8-10, Honolulu. 1985
  • Hai-Chen Tu, (1986) Hai-Chen Tu, "FAC: Functional Array Calculator and its Application to APL and Functional Programming" YALEU/DCSnRJ168, Yale University, New Haven, CT, (Apr. 1986).
  • Tu, H.-C and Perlis, A.J. (1986) Tu, H.-C and Perlis, A.J. "FAC: A Functional APL Language" Abstract Extract: Introduction Extract: Functional languages and list processing Extract: APL and array processing. Extract: List processing
          in (1986) IEEE Software 3(01) January 1986 (Multiparadigm language projects)
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