Functional Programming Languages and Computer Architecture: 5th ACM Conference. Cambridge, MA, USA, August 26-30, 1991 Proceedings / Edition 1

Functional Programming Languages and Computer Architecture: 5th ACM Conference. Cambridge, MA, USA, August 26-30, 1991 Proceedings / Edition 1

ISBN-10:
3540543961
ISBN-13:
9783540543961
Pub. Date:
09/12/1991
Publisher:
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
ISBN-10:
3540543961
ISBN-13:
9783540543961
Pub. Date:
09/12/1991
Publisher:
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Functional Programming Languages and Computer Architecture: 5th ACM Conference. Cambridge, MA, USA, August 26-30, 1991 Proceedings / Edition 1

Functional Programming Languages and Computer Architecture: 5th ACM Conference. Cambridge, MA, USA, August 26-30, 1991 Proceedings / Edition 1

by John Hughes

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Overview

This book offers a comprehensive view of the best and the latest work in functional programming. It is the proceedings of a major international conference and contains 30 papers selected from 126 submitted. A number of themes emerge. One is a growing interest in types: powerful type systems or type checkers supporting overloading, coercion, dynamic types, and incremental inference; linear types to optimize storage, and polymorphic types to optimize semantic analysis. The hot topic of partial evaluation is well represented: techniques for higher-order binding-time analysis, assuring termination of partial evaluation, and improving the residual programs a partial evaluator generates. The thorny problem of manipulating state in functional languages is addressed: one paper even argues that parallel programs with side-effects can be "more declarative" than purely functional ones. Theoretical work covers a new model of types based on projections, parametricity, a connection between strictness analysis and logic, and a discussion of efficient implementations of the lambda-calculus. The connection with computer architecture and a variety of other topics are also addressed.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783540543961
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date: 09/12/1991
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science , #523
Edition description: 1991
Pages: 672
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.06(d)
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