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- 1 2 Will Byrd (August 2009). Relational Programming in miniKanren: Techniques, Applications, and Implementations (PDF) (Ph.D.). Indiana University.
- ↑ Will Byrd, Eric Holk, and Dan Friedman (2012). "miniKanren, live and untagged: Quine generation via relational interpreters (programming pearl)" (PDF). Proceedings of the 2012 Annual Workshop on Scheme and Functional Programming. ACM: 8–29.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ↑ Dan Friedman; Will Byrd; Oleg Kiselyov (2005). The Reasoned Schemer. MIT Press. ISBN 9780262562140.