Kevin Hammond

The King's Peace

Creep

Michael Wombat

Eric Brown

Lisa Shambrook

Natalie Gibson

Katie Jennings

Shaun Avery

Tom Mohan

Sara Daniell

Drea Damara

Andrew Weston

Rebecca Fyfe

Beth Avery

Theresa Miller

A. R. Meyering

Ruth Long

Elle K. White

E. G. Smith

S. R. Karfelt

A. D. Trosper

LaDonna Cole

J. S. Bailey

J. Whitworth Hazzard

D. M. Kilgore

Kayleigh Edwards

Chris Fitzner

Joni Lynn

Leslie Fulton

Kevin G. Buffton

Nick Johns

Ryan T. Nuhfer

Laura Jamez

Sorcha O'Dowd

Lionel Ray Green

Marissa Ames

Morgan Griffith

Rebecka Vigus

Ailsa Abraham

Mary MacFarlane

Brian R. Luedtke

D. L. Smith-Lee

Spencer Stoner

Cory John Eadson

Eric Martell

Angie Trafford

Andrew Patch

M. A. Walker

S. L. Wilson

Mark W. Coulter

Ghosts, goblins, and ghouls creep through pages of spooky flash fiction. Discover critically acclaimed authors who will make your skin shiver and have you flinching at bumps in the night. Whenever the mood strikes for something creepy, this collection will leave you looking over your shoulder.

In Creeps the Night

Sharon Curtis

An exploration of research in functional programming, featuring an international list of contributors. Topics covered include the exploitation of parallelism, compiler optimization techniques and research in type theory. Practice is not ignored, with papers on topics including an assessment of the applicability of the functional language Haskell for business applications, and a paper describing how to automatically repair type errors - a potentially important tool for users of strongly typed languages.

Trends in Functional Programming

David N. Turner

Patrick M. Sansom

This is the proceedings of the seventh annual workshop held by the Glasgow Functional Programming Group. The purpose of the workshop is to provide a focus for new research, to foster research contacts with other functional language researchers, and to provide a platform for research students to develop their presentation skills. As in previous years, we spent three days closeted together in a pleasant seaside town, isolated from normal work commitments. We were joined by colleagues from other universities (both UK and abroad) and from industry. Workshop participants presented a short talk about their current research work, and produced a paper which appeared in a draft proceedings. These papers were then reviewed and revised in the light of discussions at the workshop and the referees' comments. A selection of those revised papers (the majority of those presented at the workshop) appears here in the published proceedings. The papers themselves cover a wide span, from theoretical work on algebras and bisimilarity to experience with a real-world medical applica tion. Unsurprisingly, given Glasgow's track record, there is a strong emphasis on compilation techniques and optimisations, and there are also several papers on concurrency and parallelism.

Proceedings of the 1994 Glasgow Workshop on Functional Programming, Ayr, Scotland, 12–14 September 1994

Functional Programming, Glasgow 1994

Greg Michaelson

Programming is hard. Building a large program is like constructing a steam locomotive through a hole the size of a postage stamp. An artefact that is the fruit of hundreds of person-years is only ever seen by anyone through a lOO-line window. In some ways it is astonishing that such large systems work at all. But parallel programming is much, much harder. There are so many more things to go wrong. Debugging is a nightmare. A bug that shows up on one run may never happen when you are looking for it - but unfailingly returns as soon as your attention moves elsewhere. A large fraction of the program's code can be made up of marshalling and coordination algorithms. The core application can easily be obscured by a maze of plumbing. Functional programming is a radical, elegant, high-level attack on the programming problem. Radical, because it dramatically eschews side-effects; elegant, because of its close connection with mathematics; high-level, be cause you can say a lot in one line. But functional programming is definitely not (yet) mainstream. That's the trouble with radical approaches: it's hard for them to break through and become mainstream. But that doesn't make functional programming any less fun, and it has turned out to be a won derful laboratory for rich type systems, automatic garbage collection, object models, and other stuff that has made the jump into the mainstream.

Research Directions in Parallel Functional Programming

Chris Clack

Tony Davie

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Implementation of Functional Languages, IFL'97, held in St. Andrews, Scotland, UK, in September 1997. The 21 revised full papers presented were selected from the 34 papers accepted for presentation at the workshop during a second round of thorough a-posteriori reviewing. The book is divided in sections on compilation, types, benchmarking and profiling, parallelism, interaction, language design, and garbage collection.

9th International Workshop, IFL'97, St. Andrews, Scotland, UK, September 10-12, 1997, Selected Papers

Implementation of Functional Languages

John T. O'Donnell

The Functional Programming Group at the University of Glasgow was started in 1986 by John Hughes and Mary Sheeran. Since then it has grown in size and strength, becoming one of the largest computing science research groups at Glasgow and earning an international reputation. The first Glasgow Functional Programming Workshop was organised in the summer of 1988. Its purpose was threefold: to provide a snapshot of all the research going on within the group, to share research ideas between Glaswegians and colleagues in the U.K. and abroad, and to introduce research students to the art of writing and presenting papers at a semi-formal (but still local and friendly) conference. The success of the first workshop has led to an annual series: Rothesay (1988), Fraserburgh (1989), Ullapool (1990). Portree (1991), Ayr (1992), and the workshop reported in these proceedings: Ayr (1993). Most participants wrote a paper that appeared in the draft proceedings (distributed at the workshop), and each draft paper was presented by one of the authors. The papers were all refereed by several other participants at the workshop, both internal and external, and the programme committee selected papers for these proceedings. Most papers have been revised twice, based firstly on feedback at the workshop, and secondly using the referee reports.

Proceedings of the 1993 Glasgow Workshop on Functional Programming, Ayr, Scotland, 5–7 July 1993

Functional Programming, Glasgow 1993

Ivan Djordjevic

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