Author : John Hughes
Release : 1991-08-07
Genre : Computers
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Functional Programming Languages and Computer Architecture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Functional Programming Languages and Computer Architecture write by John Hughes. This book was released on 1991-08-07. Functional Programming Languages and Computer Architecture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.