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It has earlier been assumed that a compositional approach to algorithm design and program transformation is somehow unique to functional programming. Elegant theoretical results codify the basic laws of algorithmics within the functional paradigm and with this paper we hope to demonstrate that some of the same techniques and results are applicable to logic programming as well.
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Seres, S., Spivey, M. (2001). Higher-Order Transformation of Logic Programs. In: Logic Based Program Synthesis and Transformation. LOPSTR 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2042. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45142-0_4
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