Oleg Kiselyov – författare

A new edition of a book, written in a humorous question-and-answer style, that shows how to implement  and use an elegant little programming language for logic programming.

The goal of this book is to show the beauty and elegance of relational programming, which captures the essence of logic programming.  The book shows how to implement a relational programming language in Scheme, or in any other functional language, and demonstrates the remarkable flexibility of the resulting relational programs. As in the first edition, the pedagogical method is a series of questions and answers, which proceed with the characteristic humor that marked The Little Schemer and The Seasoned Schemer. Familiarity with a functional language or with the first five chapters of The Little Schemer is assumed. 

For this second edition, the authors have greatly simplified the programming language used in the book, as well as the implementation of the language. In addition to revising the text extensively, and simplifying and revising the “Laws” and “Commandments,” they have added explicit “Translation” rules to ease translation of Scheme functions into relations.

This bookconstitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Functionaland Logic Programming, FLOPS 2016, held in Kochi, Japan, in March 2016. The 14 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selectedfrom 36 submissions. They cover the following topics: functional and logicprogramming; program transformation and re-writing; and extracting programsfrom proofs of their correctness. 

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 22nd Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems, APLAS 2024, held in Kyoto, Japan, during October 22-24, 2024.

The 18 full papers presented here were carefully reviewed and selected from 37 submissions. These papers have been categorized under the following topical sections: Type theory and Semantic Frameworks; Probabilistic and Declarative Programming; Quantum Computation; Logical Relations; Verification.