Functional Programming, Glasgow 1990 (Paperback)

Simon L. Peyton Jones

ISBN 10: 3540196676 / ISBN 13: 9783540196679

Published by Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin, 1991

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Paperback. This volume contains the papers presented at the 3rd Glasgow Workshop on Functional Programming which was held at Ullapool in August, 1990. The papers vary from the theoretical to the pragmatic, with emphasis on the characteristic application in functional programming of theoretical ideas to practical problems. Material is also offered on using functional languages for particular applications and on debugging and profiling functional programmes. Among the other topics addressed are analysis of lifetimes, strictness and heap contents, the relationship between forward and backward analysis, improved programme compilation, partial applications and parallel programming. A volume of papers from a workshop in 1990 addressing aspects of functional programming such as lifetimes, strictness and heap contents, the relationship between forward and backward analysis, improved programme compilation, partial applications and parallel programming. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Functional Programming, Glasgow 1990 (Paperback)
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540196676
• ISBN 13: 9783540196679
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

The Third Glasgow Workshop on Functional Programming was held in Ullapool, Scotland, 13-15th August 1990. Members of the functional programming groups at Glasgow and Stirling University attended the workshop together with a small number of invited participants from other universities and industry. The workshop was organised by Kei Davis, Jak Deschner, Kevin Hammond, Carsten Kehler Holst, John Hughes, Graham Hutton, and John Launchbury, all from Glasgow University. We are very grateful for the support of our industrial sponsors: British Telecom, Hewlett Packard, ICL and Software AG. Their financial help made the workshop possible. Thanks to Samson Abramsky, Tony Field, and Paul Kelly, all from Imperial College, for their help in refereeing many of the papers. Glasgow University The Programme Committee: December 1990 Simon Peyton Jones (chairman) Chris Hankin Carsten Kehler Holst John Hughes Graham Hutton Philip Wadler Contents Lifetime Analysis Guy Argo ...Compiling Laziness by Partial Evaluation Anders Bondorf ...9 Strictness Analysis in 4D Kei Davis and Philip Wadler ...23 An Algorithmic and Semantic Approach to Debugging Cordelia Hall, Kevin Hammond and John O'Donnell ...4 4 Abstract Interpretation of Term Graph Rewriting Systems Chris Hankin ...54 Compile-Time Garbage Collection by Necessity Analysis Geoff W Hamilton and Simon B. Jones...66 Improving Full Laziness Carsten Kehler Holst ...71 Towards Binding-Time Improvement for Free Carsen Kehler Holst and John Hughes ...83 Towards Relating Forwards and Backwards Analyses John Hughes and John Launchbury ...101 PERs Generalise Projections for Strictness Analysis Sebastian Hunt ...114 Functional Programming with Relations Graham Hutton ...

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This volume contains the papers presented at the 3rd Glasgow Workshop on Functional Programming which was held at Ullapool in August, 1990. The papers vary from the theoretical to the pragmatic, with emphasis on the characteristic application in functional programming of theoretical ideas to practical problems. Material is also offered on using functional languages for particular applications and on debugging and profiling functional programmes. Among the other topics addressed are analysis of lifetimes, strictness and heap contents, the relationship between forward and backward analysis, improved programme compilation, partial applications and parallel programming.