functional languages
functional languages (applicative languages) A class of programming languages whose programs compute
functions. In practice, the class of functional languages are a subclass of the
declarative languages, and are based on
lambda calculus or
recursion equations. Typically a program in a functional language consists of an unordered set of equations that characterize functions and their values. Functions are specified by use of recursion, other functions, and values. Values are characterized as functions applied to other values. Ultimately the set of equations that is the program must characterize all functions and values in terms of the primitive functions and values provided by the language. The values characterized by the equations include the values computed by executing the program.
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Michael Ondaatje Returns to Poetry
News Wire article from: AP Online; 6/30/1999; ; 700+ words
; HILLEL ITALIE, Associated Press Writer AP Online 06-30-1999 Michael Ondaatje Returns to Poetry TORONTO (AP) -- Michael Ondaatje, internationally acclaimed author, is seated on a rustic-looking bench in a small...
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"Michael Ondaatje: cat burglar in the House of Fiction".
Magazine article from: Hollins Critic; 12/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...renegades who populate his books, Michael Ondaatje, the Canadian poet and novelist...Nothing is come at conventionally. Ondaatje explodes convention. A book...his madness. If on the surface Ondaatje's narratives seem chaotic or...
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Ragas of Longing: The Poetry of Michael Ondaatje.(Book review)
Magazine article from: American Review of Canadian Studies; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; Sam Solecki. Ragas of Longing: The Poetry of Michael Ondaatje. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003...Ragas of Longing, the first book-length study of Michael Ondaatje's poetry, Sam Solecki presents a perceptive reading...
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Michael Ondaatje, In Peak Form; Coming at a Story From Different Angles, the Author Constructs a Novel
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 5/30/2007; ; 700+ words
; The more one talks to Michael Ondaatje about the way he writes his novels...when it comes to improvisation, Ondaatje is an extreme case. He begins with...self-editing phase, crucial to Ondaatje's creative process, which can...
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Searching for his lost heritage: Christopher Ondaatje's Sri Lankan collection: at Glenthorne, his home in Devon, Christopher Ondaatje talks to Amin Jaffer about his love for Sri Lankan culture and history. His deeply biographical collection draws on his memories of life in Ceylon, which he had to abandon while still a boy.(Biography)
Magazine article from: Apollo; 11/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...FIGURE 3 OMITTED] The lives of Ondaatje's ancestors reflect twists in...doctors. In 1659 the raja sent an Ondaatje to Ceylon to treat the wife of...to Christianity, took the name Michael Jurgen Ondaatje and married a local Portuguese...
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THE PATIENT AUTHOR Michael Ondaatje waits for his stories to come to him
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 11/22/1996; ; 700+ words
; Michael Ondaatje is standing on the wooden stage at...was not how it was written," said Ondaatje, whose accent is a curious blend of...what do you do then?" If you are Michael Ondaatje, you might pull on your heavy silver...
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Iconographic metafiction: a converging aspect of Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient and John Berger's To the Wedding.
Magazine article from: Textual Studies in Canada; 6/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; The writings of Michael Ondaatje and John Berger are contemporary versions...1972) provided some inspiration for Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion: A Novel...are traces of reversed stimuli in Ondaatje's The English Patient (1992) and...
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'English Patient' author Michael Ondaatje a historian for 'unhistorical people'
News Wire article from: University Wire; 10/27/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...Hoya) (U-WIRE) WASHINGTON -- Michael Ondaatje is trying to catch a cab. The...hopefully extended into the air. Ondaatje came to Georgetown University Sept...year, students were asked to read Ondaatje's latest work of prose fiction...
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A TELLER OF TALES WRITER MICHAEL ONDAATJE WOULD MUCH RATHER TALK ABOUT HIS WORK THAN HIMSELF.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 3/2/2000; 700+ words
; ...seriously,'' said novelist Michael Ondaatje, speaking by phone from his...the success of his last novel, Ondaatje understands the publishing world...slam again.'' THE WRITE STUFF MICHAEL ONDAATJE and LINDA SPALDING Who: Novelist...
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Dr. Ondaatje? Novelist takes on teaching at medical school; Crossing over: Writer teaching at medical school is a new twist
Newspaper article from: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque); 12/19/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...this first day of class, author Michael Ondaatje settles at the end of a long conference...literature. For the fall semester, Ondaatje has been the college's first...match. "I've learned a lot," Ondaatje said after class. "The nature...
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Michael Ondaatje
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Michael Ondaatje Once a highly regarded denizen of...literary scene in the early 1970s, Michael Ondaatje (born 1943) has since gone on to...array of industry awards. Philip Michael Ondaatje was born in 1943 in Ceylon (now Sri...
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Ondaatje, (Philip) Michael
Book article from: Contemporary Novelists
...Studies: Spider Blues: Essays on Michael Ondaatje edited by Sam Solecki, Montreal...xE9;hicule Press, 1985; Michael Ondaatje by Douglas Barbour, New York...Leonard Cohen, Hubert Aquin, Michael Ondaatje, and Nicole Brossard by Winfried...
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Ondaatje, Michael
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Ondaatje, Michael (1943– ), Canadian poet and novelist, born in Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon), educated at the University...
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Michaels, Anne
Book article from: Contemporary Novelists
...tradition of Canadian novelist-poets Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, and Jane Urquhart—so every event, sight...The long gauze of science" signals one source of Michael's poetic inspiration in Fugitive Pieces. Archaeology...
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Thomas, Audrey (Grace)
Book article from: Contemporary Novelists
...Merrill, 1967. Ladies and Escorts. Ottawa, Oberon Press, 1977. Personal Fictions, with others, edited by Michael Ondaatje. Toronto, Oxford University Press, 1977. Real Mothers. Vancouver, Talonbooks, 1981. Two in the Bush and Other...
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