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A High-Level Generic Interface to External Programming Languages for ECLiPSe

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Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages (PADL 2002)

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This paper addresses an important but rarely discussed practical aspect of programming in a declarative language: its interface to other programming languages. We present the high-level, generic interface of ECLiPSe, and discuss the reasons for our design choices. The main feature of the interface is that it cleanly separates the code for ECLiPSe from that of the external language, allowing the interface to be used for different languages. We believe that many of the concepts developed for this interface can be applied to other declarative languages, especially for other Prolog systems.

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  1. IC-Parc, Imperial College, SW7 2AZ, London, UK

    Kish Shen, Joachim Schimpf, Stefano Novello & Josh Singer

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  1. Computer Science Department, Brown University, Box 1910, 02912, Providence, RI, USA

    Shriram Krishnamurthi

  2. Department of Computer Science, SUNY at Stony Brook, 11794-4400, Stony Brook, NY, USA

    C. R. Ramakrishnan

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Shen, K., Schimpf, J., Novello, S., Singer, J. (2002). A High-Level Generic Interface to External Programming Languages for ECLiPSe. In: Krishnamurthi, S., Ramakrishnan, C.R. (eds) Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages. PADL 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2257. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45587-6_17

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