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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
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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. 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
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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
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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)
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Andy Moran Phone: 503.626.6616, x113
Galois Connections Inc. Fax: 503.350.0833
12725 SW Millikan Way, Suite #290 http://www.galois.com
Beaverton, OR 97005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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