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CUFP 2005
THE SECOND COMMERCIAL USERS OF FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING WORKSHOP
Talinn, Estonia
September 24th 2005
Co-located with ICFP
Functional languages have been under academic development for over 25
years, and are still proving to be very fertile ground for programming
language research. Consequently, most of the development focus of these
languages is driven by academic and theoretical questions. More
recently, however, functional languages have been very successfully
used in commercial, industrial, and government settings, where their
advantages have been able to be leveraged dramatically.
The goal of CUFP is to act as a voice for commercial users of
functional programming languages and technology. It aims to help
functional programming become increasingly viable as a technology for
use in the commercial, industrial, and government space, by providing a
forum for FP professionals to share their experiences and ideas,
whether business, management or engineering. It also aims to enable the
formation and cementing of relationships and alliances that further the
commercial use of functional languages. Providing user feedback to
language designers and implementors is not a primary goal of the
workshop, though it will be welcome if it occurs.
Program plans
-------------
The meeting will last a full day, with a mix of invited and submitted
presentations, plus discussion sessions.
Topics will range over a wide area, including:
* Case studies both of successful and unsuccessful uses of
functional programming;
* Business opportunities and risks from using functional languages;
* Enablers for functional language use in a commercial setting;
* Barriers to the adoption of functional languages, and
* Mitigation strategies for overcoming limitations of FP.
There will be no published proceedings, as the meeting is intended to
be more a discussion forum than a technical interchange. A full report
of last year's workshop will appear in the Functional Programming
column of SIGPLAN Notices.
See http://www.galois.com/cufp/ for more information, including last
year's schedule and a report describing last year's workshop. This
year's schedule will also be available there soon.
Submissions
-----------
Submissions by prospective speakers or suggestions for speakers are
welcome! Just send an e-mail to cufp at galois.com with an outline of
what you'd like to talk about or what you think your suggestee should
give a talk about.
Program Committee
-----------------
Mike Ashley: Mike.Ashley at sagian.com
Jim Grundy: Jim_Grundy at ichips.intel.com
Xavier Leroy: Xavier.Leroy at inria.fr
Simon Peyton Jones: simonpj at microsoft.com
Ulf Wiger: ulf.wiger at ericsson.com
Andy Moran: moran at galois.com
John Launchbury: john at galois.com (Chair)
Am 29.06.2005 20:26 Uhr schrieb "Andy Moran" unter <········@gmail.com> in
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> [ Apologies for multiple postings; please forward to potentially
> interested parties ]
>
> CUFP 2005
> THE SECOND COMMERCIAL USERS OF FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING WORKSHOP
>
> Talinn, Estonia
> September 24th 2005
> Co-located with ICFP
>
> Functional languages have been under academic development for over 25
> years, and are still proving to be very fertile ground for programming
> language research. Consequently, most of the development focus of these
> languages is driven by academic and theoretical questions. More
> recently, however, functional languages have been very successfully
> used in commercial, industrial, and government settings, where their
> advantages have been able to be leveraged dramatically.
>
> The goal of CUFP is to act as a voice for commercial users of
> functional programming languages and technology. It aims to help
> functional programming become increasingly viable as a technology for
> use in the commercial, industrial, and government space, by providing a
> forum for FP professionals to share their experiences and ideas,
> whether business, management or engineering. It also aims to enable the
> formation and cementing of relationships and alliances that further the
> commercial use of functional languages. Providing user feedback to
> language designers and implementors is not a primary goal of the
> workshop, though it will be welcome if it occurs.
>
>
> Program plans
> -------------
>
> The meeting will last a full day, with a mix of invited and submitted
> presentations, plus discussion sessions.
>
> Topics will range over a wide area, including:
>
> * Case studies both of successful and unsuccessful uses of
> functional programming;
> * Business opportunities and risks from using functional languages;
> * Enablers for functional language use in a commercial setting;
> * Barriers to the adoption of functional languages, and
> * Mitigation strategies for overcoming limitations of FP.
>
> There will be no published proceedings, as the meeting is intended to
> be more a discussion forum than a technical interchange. A full report
> of last year's workshop will appear in the Functional Programming
> column of SIGPLAN Notices.
>
> See http://www.galois.com/cufp/ for more information, including last
> year's schedule and a report describing last year's workshop. This
> year's schedule will also be available there soon.
>
>
> Submissions
> -----------
>
> Submissions by prospective speakers or suggestions for speakers are
> welcome! Just send an e-mail to cufp at galois.com with an outline of
> what you'd like to talk about or what you think your suggestee should
> give a talk about.
>
>
> Program Committee
> -----------------
>
> Mike Ashley: Mike.Ashley at sagian.com
> Jim Grundy: Jim_Grundy at ichips.intel.com
> Xavier Leroy: Xavier.Leroy at inria.fr
> Simon Peyton Jones: simonpj at microsoft.com
> Ulf Wiger: ulf.wiger at ericsson.com
> Andy Moran: moran at galois.com
> John Launchbury: john at galois.com (Chair)
>
>
Hmm, is Lisp seen as a functional programming language? Probably not.
That would explain the invitation text.
Lisp has been under development for well over 40 years (not just 25) and
it has been used in commercial software for several decades. Sometimes
even 'successfully'.
But thanks for the info anyway.
Best wishes,
Rainer Joswig
From: Paul F. Dietz
Subject: Re: Commerical Users of Functional Programming Workshop 2005
Date:
Message-ID: <YeCdndQz-asR2V7fRVn-ig@dls.net>
Rainer Joswig wrote:
> Hmm, is Lisp seen as a functional programming language? Probably not.
> That would explain the invitation text.
There's 'Applicative Common Lisp', which is used in ACL2.
Paul
Actually, we certainly do consider Lisp a functional language, and its
closer relative Scheme. We had a couple of talks last year that
concerned commercial successes using both Lisp and Scheme.
Cheers,
Andy
P.S. Sorry to take so long to reply; I don't read Usenet often any
more.