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A case study comparison of four declarative programming languages
Author(s) -
Fleck A. C.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
software: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1097-024X
pISSN - 0038-0644
DOI - 10.1002/spe.4380200107
Subject(s) - programming language , prolog , computer science , declarative programming , expressive power , fifth generation programming language , implementation , programming paradigm , inductive programming
Abstract A case study comparison is made of four declarative programming languages: Miranda, Miranda is a trademark of Research Software Ltd. Fp, Equations and Prolog. The case study is used as a vehicle to assess both expressiveness and performance aspects of these languages. In expressive power, Miranda is judged to be superior, Equations and Prolog are rated about even in second place, and Fp is judged least expressive. Performance was quite poor for all the available implementations. Reasons for this are explored and the implications are discussed.