The fun of programming
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The fun of programming
Palgrave Macmillan, 2003
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-272) and index
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Description
What will be the next revolution in software technology to follow XML and generics? Whatever it may be, it is likely to come from functional programming, where many of the key ideas of the last decade originated. In this textbook, the leading researchers of the field take you on a tour of the current hot topics in functional programming, with applications ranging from financial contracts to circuit design. There are also chapters on new idioms for structuring programs, such as monads and arrows. All new concepts are illustrated with many examples, and exercises appear throughout to further enliven the material. Several of the chapters describe a substantial piece of software, and most of these programs are collected on a website for free downloading.
This book was edited in honour of Richard S.Bird, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Oxford, on his 60th birthday.
Table of Contents
- Preface.- Fun with Binary Heap Trees
- C.Okasaki.- Specification-based Testing with QuickCheck
- K.Claessen & J.Hughes.- Origami Programming
- J.Gibbons.- Describing and Interpreting Music in Haskell
- P.Hudak.- Mechanising Fusion
- G.Sittampalam & O.de Moor.- How to Write a Financial Contract
- S.Peyton Jones & J-M.Eber.- Functional Images
- C.Elliott.- Functional Hardware Description in Lava
- K.Claessen, M.Sheeran & S.Singh.- Combinators for Logic Programming
- M.Spivey & S.Seres.- Arrows and Computation
- R.Paterson.- A Prettier Printer
- P.Wadler.- Fun with Phantom Types
- R.Hinze.- Bibliography.- Index.
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