Functional programming languages and computer architecture
Subtitle: 5th ACM conference, Cambridge, MA, USA, August 26-30, 1991 : proceedings
By: J. Hughes, ed.
Contributors: Hughes, John, 1958-
Series: Lecture notes in computer science ;; 523
Publisher: Springer-Verlag; Brand: Springer-Verlag; Springer Verlag
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 666
Subjects: Functional programming languages -- Congresses; Computer architecture -- Congresses
Description: "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."--PUBLISHER'S WEBSITE.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 665-666).
"Fifth conference on Functional Programming Languages and Computer Architecture, held at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, August 26-30, 1991"--Foreword.