robison@m.cs.uiuc.edu (08/30/88)
Want a fast and cheap FP interpreter? IFP[1] is a variant of Backus' FP [3].
The IFP interpreter is written in C and is an order of magnitude faster than
BSD 4.2 FP [4]. IFP should run on any UNIX box. The interpreter is in the
public domain and available by ftp.
Arch D. Robison
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
CSNET: robison@UIUC.CSNET
UUCP: {pur-ee,convex}!uiucdcs!robison
ARPA: robison@CS.UIUC.EDU (robison@UIUC.ARPA)
General References
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[1] Arch D. Robison, "Illinois Functional Programming: A
Tutorial," BYTE Vol. 12,2 pp. 115-125 McGraw-Hill Inc.,
(February 1987).
[2] Arch D. Robison, "The Illinois Functional Programming Interpreter,"
SIGPLAN '87 Symp. on Interpreters and Interpretive Techniques,
June, 1987, pp. 64-73.
[3] John Backus, "Can Programming Be Liberated from the von
Neumann Style? A Functional Style and Its Algebra of
Programs," CACM Vol. 21,8 pp. 613-641 ACM, (August
1978).
[4] Scott Baden, "Berkeley FP User's Manual, Rev. 4.1,"
UNIX Programmers Manual, (July 27,1983).