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From: sanjiva@oravax.UUCP (Sanjiva Prasad)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.functional
Subject: Reference sought for *SURVEY ARTICLE* on Abstract Machines
Keywords: Survey article, Abstract machines, functioanl languages
Message-ID: <2116@oravax.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jan 91 22:42:42 GMT
Reply-To: sanjiva@oracorp.com.UUCP (Sanjiva Prasad)
Organization: ORA Corporation, Ithaca, New York
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Hi,
	I'm looking for a handy reference to a *SURVEY ARTICLE*, the
kind that appears in Computing Surveys or even a listing as in SIGPLAN
Notices, on abstract machines for functional language implementations.
Preferably a recent one that covers the various kinds of abstract machines.
("The next 700 functional abstract machines" ?)

Please note I am not looking for references to articles/papers etc
on individual abstract machines like Turner's combinator machine,
or Landin's SECD or the spineless, tagless G-machine etc. I am looking
for a "meta-reference"; one which you would, say, hand a grad student
who was interested in functional language implementations, or a
pointer you could give to a reader for background knowledge on
implementation techniques. 

Thanks,
Sanjiva

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