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    A new program for combinatory reduction and abstraction

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    v, 96 leaves ; 29 cmEven though lambda calculus (位-calculus) and combinatory logic (CL) appear to be equivalent, they are not. As yet we do not have a reduction in CL which corresponds to 尾-reduction in 位-calculus. There are three proposals but they all have few problems one of which is the lack of a complete characterization of CL-terms corresponding to 位-terms in 尾-normal form. Finding such a characterization for any of the three proposals appears to require a lot of examples which are tedious and time consuming to develop by hand. For this reason, a computer program to do reductions and abstractions of CL-terms would be useful. This thesis is about an attempt to write such a program. The program that we have does not yet work for the three proposals but it works for 尾畏-strong reduction. Coding this program turned out to be much harder than anticipated. Dr. Robin Cockett developed a semantic translation which helped in coding the program but his semantic translation needs to be extended to all three proposals to obtain the program originally desired and that needs a lot of research
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