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In the theory of programming languages in computer science deforestation (also known as fusion) is a program transformation to eliminate tree structures.The term deforestation was originally coined by Philip Wadler in his paper Deforestation: transforming programs to eliminate trees.Deforestation is typically applied to programs in functional programming languages particularly non-strict programming languages such as Haskell.

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