[Caml-list] OCaml Presentations Solicited for CUFP 2009
Grundy, Jim D
Let me invite you to consider submitting a presentation to the 2009 Workshop for Commercial Users of Functional Programming. I know from reading this list that a great many of you are engaged in just the sort of practical endeavors that this workshop focuses on.
Kind regards
Jim Grundy
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Commercial Users of Functional Programming Workshop (CUFP) 2009
Functional Programming As a Means, Not an End
Call for Presentations
Sponsored by SIGPLAN
Co-located with ICFP 2009
Edinburgh, Scotland, 4 September 2009
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Presentation proposals due 15 May 2009
http://cufp.galois.com/2009/call.html
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Functional languages have been under academic development for
over 25 years, and remain fertile ground for programming
language research. Recently, however, developers in industrial,
governmental, and open-source projects have begun to use
functional programming successfully in practical applications.
In these settings, functional programming has often provided
dramatic leverage, including whole new ways of thinking about
the original problem.
The goal of the CUFP workshop is to act as a voice for these
users of functional programming. The workshop supports the
increasing viability of functional programming in the
commercial, governmental, and open-source space by providing a
forum for professionals to share their experiences and ideas,
whether those ideas are related to business, management, or
engineering. The workshop is also designed to enable the
formation and reinforcement of relationships that further the
commercial use of functional programming. Providing user
feedback to language designers and implementors is not a
primary goal of the workshop, though it will be welcome if it
occurs.
Speaking at CUFP
If you use functional programming as a means, rather than as an
end, we invite you to offer to give a talk at the workshop.
Alternatively, if you know someone who would give a good talk,
please nominate them!
Talks are typically 25 minutes long, but can be shorter. They
aim to inform participants about how functional programming
played out in real-world applications, focusing especially on
the re-usable lessons learned, or insights gained. Your talk
does not need to be highly technical; for this audience,
reflections on the commercial, management, or software
engineering aspects are, if anything, more important. You do
not need to submit a paper!
If you are interested in offering a talk, or nominating someone
to do so, send an e-mail to francesco(at)erlang-consulting(dot)com
or jim(dot)d(dot)grundy(at)intel(dot)com by 15 May 2009 with a
short description of what you'd like to talk about or what you
think your nominee should give a talk about. Such descriptions
should be about one page long.
Program Plans
CUFP 2009 will last a full day and feature a keynote
presentation from Bryan O'Sullivan, co-author of Real World
Haskell. The program will also include a mix of presentations
and discussion sessions. Topics will range over a wide area,
including:
* Case studies 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 functional
programming.
There will be no published proceedings, as the meeting is
intended to be more a discussion forum than a technical
interchange.
This will be the sixth CUFP, for more information - including
reports from attendees of previous events and video of recent
talks - see the workshop web site: http://cufp.galois.com/
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