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 ------------------ [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).