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some resources or description of rho-calculus?

the wikipedia disambiguation page says: The first is a formalism intended to combine the higher-order facilities of lambda calculus with the pattern matching of term rewriting. and it links to http://rho.loria.fr/  however the link seems to redirect to the main page. and i could not find any resources about it other than some french papers and a haskell repo. both of which languages i don't know. so if any you know what it was like or even some existing resources about it that i can understand: i'll be very thankful if you could share them...

20th Nov 2022, 1:19 AM
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The Wikipedia link seems to be broken indeed, but the next Google hit gets you to the actual scientific paper, I think this is what you are after. https://hal.inria.fr/inria-00001112
20th Nov 2022, 4:11 AM
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Tibor Santa although that paper is interesting in it's own right, unfortunately it's not what i am after...
20th Nov 2022, 4:33 AM
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20th Nov 2022, 6:14 AM
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Tibor Santa thanks for the compliment lol, but no, i'm not writing a thesis XD (i'm reading in class 10...) i was just thinking of making an "esolang" based on it. kinda like brainf. well, yeah it is related to functional programming. in fact it ia a generalization of lambda calculus, the core of many FP languages, by integrating pattern matching into it.
20th Nov 2022, 6:59 AM
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thanks for the link! i found it very interesting, perhaps more interesting than what i was looking for! i wonder if i should implement my new esolang based on what you shared instead? prehaps a mix of both?
20th Nov 2022, 7:14 AM
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im now getting filled with too much excitement :D thanks much for the link! i will check it out after my study...
20th Nov 2022, 7:46 AM
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i finally read the essense of scala article, and found it very interesting! thanks for the help!
19th May 2023, 4:45 PM
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Bot I'm glad you found it. May I ask what you are going to use it for? Are you writing a thesis? The paper looks a bit too theoretical for me, somehow seems to be related to functional programming (Haskell, Scala)...
20th Nov 2022, 6:31 AM
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Bot impressive! Good luck with your endeavour!
20th Nov 2022, 7:09 AM
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I cannot really advise what you should use as base material, but I love the idea that a programming language can be based on solid mathematical foundations. In fact that's what I found most exciting about Scala 3 which is based on "dependent object types" and hence their new compiler is called "dotty". Even if you choose a different path and different ideas, you might find some inspiration and maybe methodological guidance in Martin Odersky's work: https://www.scala-lang.org/blog/2016/02/03/essence-of-scala.html
20th Nov 2022, 7:27 AM
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