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This chapter presents three languages allowing to express algorithms: rewriting, the lambda-calculus, and Turing machines. It emphases the fact that, behind this apparent diversity, there is a deep unifying notion: that a computation is a sequence of small steps.
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Dowek, G. (2011). Computation as a Sequence of Small Steps. In: Proofs and Algorithms. Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-121-9_4
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