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Exploiting Purely Functional Programming to Obtain Bounded Resource Behaviour: The Hume Approach

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This chapter describes Hume: a functionally-based language for programming with bounded resource usage, including time and space properties. The purpose of the Hume language design is to explore the expressibility/costability spectrum in resource-constrained systems, such as real-time embedded or control systems. It is unusual in being based on a combination of λ-calculus and finite state machine notions, rather than the more usual propositional logic, or flat finite-state-machine models. The use of a strict, purely functional programming notation allows the construction of a strong cost model for expressions, which can then be embedded into a simple cost model for processes.

In this chapter, we introduce Hume, describe the Hume Abstract Machine implementation, and show how a high-level cost model can be constructed that relates costs from the abstract machine to Hume source programs. We illustrate our approach with an example adapted from the literature: a simple vending machine controller.

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Hammond, K. (2006). Exploiting Purely Functional Programming to Obtain Bounded Resource Behaviour: The Hume Approach. In: Horváth, Z. (eds) Central European Functional Programming School. CEFP 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4164. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11894100_4

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