Jan KOLLAR, Valerie NOVITZKA, Peter VACLAVIK, Jaroslav PORUBAN
Process Functional Form of Imperative Programs

Abstract.
In the past, PFL – a process functional language based on process functional paradigm was developed as a programming language. The goal was practical { how to provide a programming methodology able to manipulate state without assignments, not hiding variables that represent memory cells. Syntactically, PFL is a reduced subset of Haskell, extended in a uniform way to support array comprehensions, abstract typing, and object programming. At present time, expecially with respect to a new aspect oriented methodology of programming, it seems that PFL may serve as a general implementation bridge for any target imperative language, provided that the support for aspect programming will be added. This paper is just a small step to reach this goal. We present the syntax of simple imperative language and the transformation rules into PFL form. In addition, considering procedure and function calls as well as the scope, we prove rather informally than formally, that PFL is powerful enough to express any imperative program.

Keywords: Programming paradigms, programming languages, side effects, process functional programming, imperative functional programming, aspect oriented programming.