Bird-Meertens Formalism

Bird-Meertens Formalism

The Bird-Meertens Formalism is a calculus for deriving programs from specifications (in a functional-programming setting), devised by Richard Bird and Lambert Meertens.

It is sometimes facetiously known as the squiggol, because of the "squiggly" symbols it uses. A less-used variant name, but actually the first one suggested, is SQUIGOL.

See also

* Catamorphism
* Anamorphism
* Paramorphism
* Hylomorphism

References

* cite book
author = Richard Bird
coauthors = Oege de Moor
year = 1997
title = Algebra of Programming, International Series in Computing Science, Vol. 100
publisher = Prentice Hall
isbn = 0-13-507245-X

External links

* [http://www.program-transformation.org/Transform/BirdMeertensFormalism Bird Meertens Formalism] on the Program Transformation Wiki


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