5th ACM conference, Cambridge, MA, USA, August 26-30, 1991 : proceedings
Edición de la obra Functional programming languages and computer architecture
| Autor | John Hughes |
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| Editorial | Springer-Verlag, Brand: Springer-Verlag, Springer Verlag |
| Fecha de publicación | 1991 |
| Lugar | Berlin, New York |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 666 |
| ISBN-10 | 3540543961, 0387543961 |
| OCLC | 24173956 |
| LCCN | 91027189 |
| Serie | Lecture notes in computer science ; · 523 |
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"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.