Discussions - comp.lang.functional

	*** Reminder:FACS/LMS Evening Seminar by Prof Mike Gordon: Forward with Hoare, 1 December 2009, London Mathematical Society, Demorgan House
	(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement) BCS-FACS Evening Seminar Series Joint event with the London Mathematical Society Forward with Hoare Professor Mike Gordon, FRS (Cambridge University)... more » By Paul.Boca@googlemail.com - Nov 22 - 1 new of 1 message

	Do blocks, monads, and sequences
	Hi all, I'm trying to understand monads a little more, so I tried deconstructing a do block into continuation monads into use of no monads. I'm having trouble getting the last ones to execute non-lazily, any pointers? Thanks much! Mike import System.IO.Unsafe test1 = do print "What's your name?"... more » By Mike Austin - Nov 22 - 5 new of 5 messages

I think linked data structures are very useful, but we seem to have forgotten the overhead involved in using object headers and pointers for explicit ordering.

I think linked data structures are very useful, but we seem to have forgotten the overhead involved in using object headers and pointers for explicit ordering. Arrays, use implicit ordering, and without the overhead of object headers and pointers, quite a few more elements of your data structure can fit into a cache line. (That is, the good old memory hiearchy.)... more »

By Casey Hawthorne - Nov 19 - 1 new of 1 message

	Call for Papers: IAENG International Conference on Communication Systems and Applications (ICCSA 2010)
	CFP: IAENG International Conference on Communication Systems and Applications (ICCSA 2010) ...Draft Manuscript submission deadline: 8 December, 2009 Camera-Ready papers & Pre-registration deadline: 10 January, 2010 ICCSA 2010: 17-19 March, 2010 [link] All submitted papers will be under peer review and accepted papers... more » By IMECS - Nov 19 - 1 new of 1 message

	Job postings for DFG funded typesetting tool for academic texts
	Dear Colleagues, The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) funds a joint project of the University of Applied Sciences Worms (Germany) and the University Trier (Germany) for the development of a typesetting module for (primarily) humanist texts. We will jointly develop a typesetting system for XML-based texts with... more » By mwkuster@googlemail.com - Nov 18 - 1 new of 1 message

CFP: The First Scala Workshop - Scala Days 2010

The First Scala Workshop ======================== Call for Papers --------------- Scala is a general purpose programming language designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way. It smoothly integrates features of object-oriented and functional languages. This workshop is a forum for researchers and practitioners to share... more »

By Antonio Cunei - Nov 18 - 1 new of 1 message

	Parallelism and Concurrency
	Parallelism and Concurrency: I would separate the two concepts: Parallelism - one task shared across multiple cores Concurrency - different tasks shared among multiple cores For both, the overhead of communication between the tasks compared to the useful work done on the task itself, is the biggest challenge.... more » By Casey Hawthorne - Nov 16 - 7 new of 7 messages

Functional programming considered bad for parallelism

Avoiding mutation is widely hailed as a design of choice for parallel programming and this is used to advocate the adoption of functional programming. However, functional programming seems to have some serious disadvantages in the context of shared-memory parallelism for multicores. Firstly, functional data structures are more allocation intensive that... more »

By Jon Harrop - Nov 15 - 23 new of 23 messages

	SETP-10 Call for papers
	SETP-10 Call for papers The 2010 International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-10) (website: [link]) will be held during 12-14 of July 2010 in Orlando, FL, USA. SETP is an important event in the areas of Software development, maintenance, and other areas of software engineering and related topics.... more » By James Heralds - Nov 15 - 1 new of 1 message

	Google's GoLang
	What are the features of this languages in the context of FP? By Jon Harrop - Nov 13 - 9 new of 9 messages