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Subject: Who knows about J. Robinson? - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 4-Aug-87 11:03:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug  4 11:03:00 1987
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Nf-From: uklirb!noekel    Aug  4 16:03:00 1987

I recall that in a 1985 paper J. Robinson described an integration of logic and
functional programming languages on the basis of a reduction semantics *only*.
Unification and all the other ramifications of the logic part of the language
had been recast in a reduction setting. As promising further work Robinson
suggested to go all the way and implement the reduction machine using 
combinators a la Turner to achieve better runtime efficiency. He suspected,
though, that unification might be tricky to carry out when all variables have
been abstracted away.

Does anyone know whether Robinson himself or anybody else has followed this
suggestion? Any pointers to functional / logical integrations using combinators
for the whole thing or just for the functional part would be greatly
appreciated as I am preparing a paper on the subject.

 
L where L = "thanks" : L, as we SASL fans say :-)

Klaus Noekel
University of Kaiserslautern
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