CONCATENATIVE PROGRAMMING - An Overlooked Paradigm in Functional Programming

Dominikus Herzberg, Tim Reichert

2009

Abstract

Based on the state of our ongoing research into Language-Driven Software Development (LDSD) and Language-Oriented Programming (LOP) we argue that the yet relatively unknown paradigm of concatenative programming is valuable for fundamental software engineering research and might prove to be a suitable foundation for future programming. To be sound, we formally introduce Concat, our research prototype of a purely functional concatenative language. The simplicity of Concat is contrasted by its expressiveness and a richness of inspiring approaches. Concatenative languages contribute a fresh and different sight on functional programming, which might help tackle challenges in LDSD/LOP from a new viewpoint.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Herzberg D. and Reichert T. (2009). CONCATENATIVE PROGRAMMING - An Overlooked Paradigm in Functional Programming . In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-674-009-2, pages 257-262. DOI: 10.5220/0002281402570262

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft09,
author={Dominikus Herzberg and Tim Reichert},
title={CONCATENATIVE PROGRAMMING - An Overlooked Paradigm in Functional Programming},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT,},
year={2009},
pages={257-262},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002281402570262},
isbn={978-989-674-009-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT,
TI - CONCATENATIVE PROGRAMMING - An Overlooked Paradigm in Functional Programming
SN - 978-989-674-009-2
AU - Herzberg D.
AU - Reichert T.
PY - 2009
SP - 257
EP - 262
DO - 10.5220/0002281402570262