Commercial Use articles focus on functional programming “as a means, not an end”. As such, we solicit papers about experiences using functional languages in commercial and open source settings. The purpose of a Commercial Use article is to document and assess cases where functional programming was used in a real world setting. We are interested [...]
The ICFP 09 08 programming contest results presentation is here on video. (via comp.lang.scheme) Addendum: 04/01/09 Fixed date typo.
When I was first learning about Functional Programming and Scheme, the idea that order-of-execution didn’t matter in purely functional programs, was “strange to me”, to put it nicely. When I first read about Scheme’s begin form, for example, I remember feeling satisfied that Scheme wasn’t totally insane as it had at least some way to [...]
DEFUN 2008 invites functional programmers who know how to solve problems with functional progamming to give talks and lead tutorials at the The ICFP Developer Tracks. We want to know about your favorite programming techniques, powerful libraries, and engineering approaches you’ve used that the world should know about and apply to other projects. We want [...]
Re: CUFP 2007 Videos in the ACM Digital Library, they are also now available on Google Video. You can find the talks by searching on CUFP07 or on the speaker’s last name. Here is the list of speakers and presentations. (via CUFP)
Regarding my last post, you should definitely read all of the comments. It is pretty interesting to get everyone’s perspective on the topic (even if it is simply something to the effect of “Sounds like a great idea!”). Take, for example, Dan Friedman‘s comment: Since I have been teaching functional programming in my undergraduate programming [...]
On May 28-29, 2008 SIGPLan held a workshop on Programming Languages in the Curriculum at Harvard. to discuss the role of Functional Programming in Education. The results of their efforts are here. Please have a look, and, per Matthias’ comment, please consider posting your comments (under the “Programming Languages” section)!
The videos recorded at CUFP 2007 have been posted in the ACM Digital Library. You can find them either by searching for “CUFP” at the top level DL page or by using this link. Hopefully they are soon to be released to Google Video! (via CUFP)
This conference covers a lot of very interesting topics about the role of functional programming (FP) languages in education (follow the link for ample details). It sounds like a great conference! (Its co-location with ICFP 2008 is yet another reason to attend, and as FP becomes more popular in the industry today, the question of [...]
In the PLT thread ['complement'[?] of map] Stephen de Gabriel asked if there was a function that would take any number of functions, and an argument, and then apply the first function to the argument, and apply the second function to the result of the first, and so on. In PLT Scheme, the function is [...]