[comp.lang.functional] Reference sought for *SURVEY ARTICLE* on Abstract Machines

sanjiva@oravax.UUCP (Sanjiva Prasad) (01/30/91)

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

Please reply by e-mail to sanjiva@oracorp.com

hermann@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (hermann) (01/31/91)

In article <2116@oravax.UUCP> sanjiva@oravax.UUCP (Sanjiva Prasad) writes:
>	   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

This is a little out of date, and not exactly what you are looking for, but
it definitely covers the earlier machines...

@Article{Vegdahl84a,
  author	= "S. R. Vegdahl",
  title		= "A Survey of Proposed Architectures for the Execution of
		 Functional Languages",
  year		= "1984",
  journal	= "IEEE Transactions on Computers",
  volume	= 33,
  number	= 12,
  month		= dec,
  pages		= "1050--1071",
}

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