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                            CUFP 2006
     THE THIRD COMMERCIAL USERS OF FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING WORKSHOP
            "Functional programming as a means, not an end"

                        Portland, Oregon, USA
                        September 21st 2006
                        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, as well as in the open-source community.
In these settings, the advantages of functional languages have
provided dramatic leverage.

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, governmental, and open-source
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 strengthening 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
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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.

See http://www.galois.com/cufp/ for more information, including last
year's schedule and a report describing a previous CUFP workshop.
This year's schedule will also be available there soon.


Submissions
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Submissions by prospective speakers or suggestions for speakers
are welcome! Just send an e-mail to kfisher at research.att.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
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Andy Adams-Moran. adams-moran at galois.com (Co-Chair)
Mike Ashley. mashley at beckman.com
Matthias Felleisen. matthias at ccs.neu.edu
Kathleen Fisher. kfisher at research.att.com (Chair)
Jim Grundy. jim_grundy at ichips.intel.com
John Hughes. rjmh at cs.chalmers.se
Stephen Weeks. sweeks at sweeks.com
Ulf Wiger. ulf.wiger at ericsson.com