Trends in Functional Programming – serie

This book brings together leading researchers and practitioners in the field of functional programming. The work presented here covers many aspects of the field, including:language design proof and transformationsemantics and modelsimplementationapplicationstype systemsparallelism and distributionperformance modelling and profilingprogramming methodologiesThe Editors provide a substantial introduction to a wide ranging set of papers, arranged by subject area. Appropriate overviews and summaries bring strong thematic links between chapters and sections covering:Parallel Systems and ProgrammingType SystemsArchitectures and ImplementationsApplicationsTheoryThe articles themselves are drawn from the First Scottish Functional Programming Workshop, held in Stirling in 1999. Central Scotland has been very influential in the development of functional programming, with notable contributions including the design, implementation and use of the SASL, Standard ML and Haskell languages. The Workshops provide an international forum, linking a vibrant Scottish core with the wider community. As a product of this forum, the book brings a broad perspective on current research trends and practice in the field.

This volume presents edited contributions to the second Scottish Functional Programming Workshop. The authors deal with highly active research areas and consider such issues as: performance comparisons between different functional languages; the profitable use modern parallel architectures; applications of functional languages; and the use of principled type safety for term rewriting strategies.

This book brings together leading researchers and practitioners in the field of functional programming. The work presented here covers many aspects of the field, including:language design proof and transformationsemantics and modelsimplementationtype systemsparallelism and distributionperformance modelling and profilingprogramming methodologiesThe Editors introduce a wide-ranging set of articles, arranged by general subject area. Short overviews bring strong thematic links between individual articles, including:applicationsimplementation techniquesparallel systems and programmingmemory architecturestype systemsThe articles themselves are drawn from the series of Scottish Functional Programming Workshops. Central Scotland has been highly influential in the development of functional programming with notable contributions that include the design, implementation and use of the SASL, Standard ML and Haskell languages. The Workshops provide an international forum, linking a vibrant Scottish core with the wider community. As a product of this forum, the book brings a broad perspective on current research trends and practice in the field.

This book collects the latest research developments in the use of functional programming languages. The contents highlight major research goals and engineering concerns in the subject including:real-time and research-bounded functional programmingconnections between static analysis methods and functional programmingimplementation of mobile code functional languagesautomated testing of application programs and system modelsThese research contributions are drawn from the international symposium on Trends in Functional Programming.This meeting provides a vital forum for the dissemination of the latest technical advances in the field.

This book presents latest research developments in the area of functional programming. The contributions, in this volume, cover a wide range of topics from theory, formal aspects of functional programming, graphics and visual programming to distributed computing and compiler design. As is often the case in this community, the most prolific work comes out of the combination of theoretical work with its application on classical problems in computer science. Particular trends in this volume are: reasoning about functional programs; automated theorem proving for high-level programming languages; and, language support for concurrency and distribution. The "TFP" series is dedicated to promoting new research directions related to the field of functional programming and to investigate the relationships of functional programming with other branches of computer science. It is designed to be a platform for novel and upcoming research.

This book presents latest research developments in the area of functional programming. The contributions in this volume cover a wide range of topics from theory, formal aspects of functional programming, transformational and generic programming to type checking and designing new classes of data types.Not all papers in this book belong to the category of research papers. Also, the categories of project description (at the start of a project) and project evaluation (at the end of a project) papers are represented.Particular trends in this volume are:software engineering techniques such as metrics and refactoring for high-level programming languages;generation techniques for data type elements as well as for lambda expressions; analysis techniques for resource consumption with the use of high-level programming languages for embedded systems;widening and strengthening of the theoretical foundations.

Volume 8 of "Trends in Functional Programming" (TFP) presents some of the latest research results in the implementation of functional programming languages and the practice of functional programming. It contains the peer-reviewed selection of the best articles presented at TFP 2007, the Eighth Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming, which was held in New York City on April 2-4, 2007. This was the first time the TFP symposium was held in the USA and it brought together a truly international milieu of researchers, students, and industry professionals that proudly made this edition of the symposium the largest in TFP history.The topics covered in this volume include, among others, gradual typing, semantics, memory utilization and performance, hybrid types and contracts, test generation, efficient compilation of web applications, library development, and program correctness. The authors include well known veterans in the field of functional languages as well as newcomers that are quickly becoming well-established. This volume is an essential part of any modern programming languages library.The new results described in this volume are applicable to a wide array of programming languages and readers will benefit from exposure to the latest trends in solving modern Computer Science problems.The success of TFP symposia represents the growing importance of functional programming and the growing importance of the TFP policy to encourage new and veteran speakers to present their novel work at a friendly forum without first having to go through a strenuous review process. This policy has lead to a series of symposia with a rich diversity of talks from which a selection of publication-ripe articles are chosen for inclusion in a post-symposium peer-reviewed volume as the present one.