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Ashcroft, Edward A. and Wadge, William W. (1976) Lucid, a nonprocedural language with iteration. University of Warwick. Department of Computer Science. (Theory of Computation Report). (Unpublished)

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Abstract

Lucid is a formal system which programs can be written and proofs of programs carried out. The proofs are particularly easy to follow and straightforward to produce because the statements in a Lucid program are simply axioms from which the proof proceeds by (almost) conventional logical reasoning, with the help of a few axioms and rules of inference for the special Lucid functions. As a programming language, Lucid is unconventional because, among other things, the order of statements is irrelevant and assignment statements are equations. Nevertheless Lucid programs need not look much different than iterative programs in a conventional structured programming language using assignment and conditional statements and loops.

Item Type: Report
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Electronic computers. Computer science. Computer software
Divisions: Faculty of Science > Computer Science
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Lucid (Computer program language)
Series Name: Theory of Computation Report
Publisher: University of Warwick. Department of Computer Science
Official Date: April 1976
Dates:
DateEvent
April 1976["eprint_fieldopt_dates_date_type_available" not defined]
Number: Number 11
Number of Pages: 26
DOI: CS-RR-011
Institution: University of Warwick
Theses Department: Department of Computer Science
Status: Not Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Unpublished
Publisher Statement: E.A. Ashcroft and W.W. Wadge, Lucid, a Nonprocedural Language with Iteration, Communications of the ACM 20, pp. 519-526 (1977)
Access rights to Published version: Open Access
Funder: National Research Council Canada (NRCC), Science Research Council (Great Britain) (SRC)
Version or Related Resource: Ashcroft, E.A. and Wadge, W.W. (1977). Lucid, a nonprocedural language with iteration. Communications of the ACM, 20, pp. 519-526.

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