by Michael Hanus, Herbert Kuchen, Juan Jose Moreno-Navarro
ILPS'95 Workshop on Visions for the Future of Logic Programming, Portland (USA), pp. 95-107, 1995
Functional and logic programming are the most important declarative programming paradigms, and interest in combining them has grown over the last decade. However, integrated functional logic languages are currently not widely used. This is due to the fact that the operational principles are not well understood and many different evaluation strategies have been proposed which resulted in many different functional logic languages. To overcome this situation, we propose the functional logic language Curry which is intended to become a standard language in this area. It includes important ideas of existing functional logic languages and recent developments, and combines the most important features of functional and logic languages. Thus, Curry can be the basis to combine the currently separated research efforts of the functional and logic programming communities and to boost declarative programming in general. Moreover, since functions provide for more efficient evaluation strategies and are a declarative replacement of some impure features of Prolog (in particular, pruning operators), Curry can be also used as a declarative successor of Prolog.
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