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Functional programming languages are ideally suited for developing dependable software, but not much work have been done on modeling functional programs. Although UML is mainly based on concepts which are native to imperative object-oriented programming languages, this chapter shows how – through the profile mechanism – it can be used to model software that is to be implemented in a functional programming language. In this chapter Haskell was chosen as one of the most popular modern, pure functional languages. First, a partial metamodel of Haskell is defined and then the corresponding UML profile is presented.
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Szlenk, M. (2011). Metamodel and UML Profile for Functional Programming Languages. In: Zamojski, W., Kacprzyk, J., Mazurkiewicz, J., Sugier, J., Walkowiak, T. (eds) Dependable Computer Systems. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol 97. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21393-9_18
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