Re: [Haskell-cafe] Need an overview of FP-related research topics

2009-03-18 Thread Yitzchak Gale
I wrote:
 I would like some links that would give such a person
 a nice overview of the various active areas of
 FP-related research these days...

Bernie Pope wrote:
 Some ideas off the top of my head...

Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for.
Also, thanks to Sean for suggesting the History paper.
I sent it on, hope it does the trick :)

Regards,
Yitz
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Re: [Haskell-cafe] Need an overview of FP-related research topics

2009-03-18 Thread Bas van Dijk
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Yitzchak Gale g...@sefer.org wrote:
 I would like some links that would give such a person
 a nice overview of the various active areas of
 FP-related research these days, leaning towards
 Haskell.

Also check out the Haskell Communities and Activities Report

quote:

The purpose is twofold:
(a) to establish what communities, people, and projects are out there,
working with or on Haskell, and what their areas of interest are;
(b) to feed back summary information about ongoing activities in the
diverse Haskell sub-communities and amongst Haskell users (commercial
or otherwise) to the Haskell Community as a whole

http://www.haskell.org/communities/

Very interesting stuff in there!

regards,

Bas
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[Haskell-cafe] Need an overview of FP-related research topics

2009-03-17 Thread Yitzchak Gale
I spoke to a faculty member in a decent Computer Science
department in which no one has ever done anything
related to FP. (You may say that is an inherent contradiction,
but what can I do, the department does have a good
reputation. I am withholding names to protect the
innocent.)

This faculty member happens to be the one who was
forced to teach the single programming languages
course offered by the department, due to his having
the least seniority in the department. As such, he is
now actually starting to become a bit interested in
FP and Haskell.

I gave him a few links to Haskell resources, which
he appreciated. But coming from more of a pragmatic
non-research point of view, I didn't really know what
to say. The best I could do was to point him to the
Haskell Wikibook, and to the Why FP Matters paper.

I would like some links that would give such a person
a nice overview of the various active areas of
FP-related research these days, leaning towards
Haskell. I want to give him a fairly broad view of what
is interesting and exciting, why various topics are
important, where to find ideas for collaboration and
applications to other areas, etc.

I actually know about a few departments like that.
This could be a good strategy for drumming up
more research interest in Haskell. In some cases,
the person in question has already been influenced
somewhat by the lisp fanatics, so I would like some
help in how to deal with that also.

Thanks,
Yitz
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Re: [Haskell-cafe] Need an overview of FP-related research topics

2009-03-17 Thread Bernie Pope


On 17/03/2009, at 10:59 PM, Yitzchak Gale wrote:


I would like some links that would give such a person
a nice overview of the various active areas of
FP-related research these days, leaning towards
Haskell. I want to give him a fairly broad view of what
is interesting and exciting, why various topics are
important, where to find ideas for collaboration and
applications to other areas, etc.


Some ideas off the top of my head:

- Lambda the Ultimate (not Haskell or fp specific) 
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/
- Browse recent editions of the Journal of Functional Programming  
(perhaps they even subscribe to it at the Uni in question) and perhaps  
TOPLAS.
- Browse the recent proceedings of various conferences and workshops  
such as International Conference on Functional Programming, Trends in  
Functional Programming, the Haskell Symposium, Practical Aspects of  
Declarative Languages, Principles and Practice of Declarative  
Programming, International Summer School on Advanced Functional  
Programming (and many others).
- Check the home pages and blogs of well-known and active researchers  
(I won't list them).
- Maybe http://www.readscheme.org/, though not Haskell specific. (not  
sure if http://haskell.readscheme.org/ is working anymore).
- There's quite a list of papers on haskell.org, under http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Research_papers 
.


Cheers,
Bernie.

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Re: [Haskell-cafe] Need an overview of FP-related research topics

2009-03-17 Thread Sean Leather
 I would like some links that would give such a person
 a nice overview of the various active areas of
 FP-related research these days, leaning towards
 Haskell.


It seems the History of Haskell paper would be useful for background and
pointers to further reading on the research that has led Haskell to its
current status. Of course, it is long (55 pages, two columns), but perhaps
it's a nice read, nonetheless.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/history-of-haskell/index.htm

Regards,
Sean
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