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Advanced Functional Programming - Second International School, Olympia, WA, USA, August 26 - 30, 1996, Tutorial Text (Paperback, 1996 ed.)
John Launchbury, Erik Meijer, Tim Sheard
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This book presents the eight tutorial lectures given at the Second
International School on Advanced Functional Programming, held in
Olympia, WA, USA, in August 1996.
After many years of development, functional programming languages
have matured to a point where they can be used for much larger
applications than has been typical in the past. These tutorial
notes have been written for students and professionals in software
engineering who are interested in exploring beyond the elementary
concepts of functional programming and in progressing towards
large-scale programming and structured software.
The Glasgow Functional Programming Group is widely recognised for
its research in lazy functional languages. Once again this year,
for the fifth time, we retreated to a Scottish seaside town to
discuss our latest work, this time spending three days in Ayr. We
were joined by a number of colleagues from other universities and
from industry, with whom we have been enjoying fruitful
collaboration. The workshop serves the dual purpose of ensuring
that the whole group remains informed of each other's work, and of
providing workshop experience for research students. Most
participants presented a short talk about their work, supplemented
by papers which appeared in a draft proceedings distributed at the
workshop. Since then the papers have been reviewed and the majority
are now published here following revision. The workshop also
contained a lively discussion session on functional language
applications, to which the industrial participants made very
helpful contributions. One interesting feature of this volume is
the number of papers addressing practical issues of realistic use
of functional languages, from benchmarking and profiling, to user
interfaces and file handling. It is perhaps indicative that at last
lazy functional languages are being used for significantly larger
applications than has been typical in the past. This type of paper
is likely to feature prominently in relevant conference proceedings
for the next few years. Other papers here continue to address more
theoretical topics, such as program logic, semantics of non
determinism, program analysis, and loop detection."
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