by James Koppel on Dec 30, 2019 | Tags: defunctionalization, functional programming, higher-order functions, refactoring
An impressive number of transformations in both compilers and in ordinary programming are special cases of a transformation called “defunctionalization.” This post explains what it is and the many places it’s useful.
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by Simon Marlow, Simon Peyton Jones, and Satnam Singh on Dec 16, 2019 | Tags: concurrency, functional programming, Haskell, MIP award, parallelism, runtimes
Runtime Support for Multicore Haskell (ICFP’09) was awarded the SIGPLAN ten-year most-influential paper award in 2019. In this blog post we reflect on the journey that led to the paper, and what has happened since.
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by Jeremy Gibbons on Oct 14, 2019 | Tags: design recipe, functional programming, programming, recursion, structural corecursion
We accept that data structure determines program structure. But we should not forget that it is not just the input data that may be structured: output data may be structured too, and both may determine program structure.
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