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Kent Recursive Calculator

KRC (Kent Recursive Calculator) is a lazy functional language developed by David Turner from November 1979 to October 1981 based on SASL, with pattern matching, guards and ZF expressions (now more usually called list comprehensions). Two implementations of KRC were written: David Turner's original one in BCPL running on EMAS, and Simon J. Croft's later…

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Designed by
David Turner
First appeared
1981; 45 years ago (1981)
Paradigm
Functional

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Avg. degree1.88
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Kent Recursive Calculator → David Turner
First appeared · 1
Kent Recursive Calculator → 1981; 45 years ago (1981)
Paradigm · 1
Kent Recursive Calculator → Functional

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krc functional david turner 1981 based sasl miranda programming 1982 kent language one emas unix turner's lazy guards bcpl ml

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Kent Recursive CalculatorDesigned byDavid Turner1.00infobox
Kent Recursive CalculatorFirst appeared1981; 45 years ago (1981)1.00infobox
Kent Recursive CalculatorParadigmFunctional1.00infobox

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