Congratulations, Simons!
Tom On 6/7/11, Isaac Potoczny-Jones <ijo...@galois.com> wrote: > I'm pleased to be able to relay the following announcement from ACM SIGPLAN: > > The SIGPLAN Programming Languages Software Award is awarded to an > institution or individual(s) to recognize the development a software > system that has had a significant impact on programming language > research, implementations, and tools. The impact may be reflected in the > wide-spread adoption of the system or its underlying concepts by the > wider programming language community either in research projects, in the > open-source community, or commercially. The award includes a prize of > $2,500. > > For 2011, the winners of the award are > > Simon Peyton Jones and Simon Marlow of > Microsoft Research, Cambridge, for GHC > > The award winners are donating the entirety of the prize money to > haskell.org. > > Citation: > > Simon Peyton Jones and Simon Marlow receive the SIGPLAN Software Award > as the authors of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC), which is the > preeminent lazy functional programming system for industry, teaching, > and research. GHC has not only provided a language implementation, but > also established the whole paradigm of lazy functional programming and > formed the foundation of a large and enthusiastic user community. > > GHC's flexibility has supported experimental research on programming > language design in areas as diverse as monads, generalized algebraic > data types, rank-N polymorphism, and software transactional memory. > Indeed, a large share of the research on lazy functional programming in > the last 5–10 years has been carried out with GHC. > > Simultaneously, GHC's reliability and efficiency has encouraged > commercial adoption, in the financial sector in institutions like Credit > Suisse and Standard Chartered Bank, and for high assurance software in > companies like Amgen, Eaton, and Galois. > > A measure of GHC's influence is the way that many of the ideas of purely > functional, "typeful programming" have been carried into newer languages > and language features. including C#, F#, Java Generics, LINQ, Perl 6, > Python, and Visual Basic 9.0. > > Peyton Jones and Marlow have been visionary in the way that they have > transitioned research into practice. They have been role models and > leaders in creating the large and diverse Haskell community, and have > made GHC an industrial-strength platform for commercial development as > well as for research. > > Links: > http://www.sigplan.org/award-software.htm > > http://corp.galois.com/blog/2011/6/7/sigplan-programming-languages-software-award.html > > _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
