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A Relational Exploration of the Chomsky Hierarchy
Summary
Friedman and Byrd explain how to encode deterministic and non-deterministic finite automata, push-down automata, and Turing Machines in miniKanren, a DSL for relational (pure logic) programming.
Bio
Daniel Friedman is Professor of CS at Indiana University. He is co-author of The Little Schemer, The Seasoned Schemer, The Reasoned Schemer, Scheme and the Art of Programming, Essentials of Programming Languages. William Byrd is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the School of Computing at the University of Utah. He is co-author of The Reasoned Schemer, and co-designer of several declarative languages.
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