A Simon Peyton Jones interview as part of the series The A-Z of Programming Languages that Naomi Hamilton has been putting together.
Posting this one to the front page, not because of any bias towards functional programming, so much as it stands on its own as interesting and insightful from the standpoint of programming language design and evolution.
To supplant established languages, even in the functional programming area, like Haskell or ML or Scheme, you have to...
What needs to be done?
So suppose like many here (?) you are a believer in the promise of functional programming. And suppose more and more FP features and FP languages are becoming mainstream. Does this mean...
[ANN] FP Day 2011 - October 14th. Cambridge, UK.
Announcing FP Day 2011 a new 1 day Functional Programming event. The event covers the practical application of FP in Haskell, F# and Clojure. Keynote speakers are Simon-Peyton-Jones and Don...
A Monadic Framework for Delimited Continuations
A Monadic Framework for Delimited Continuations (PDF), R. Kent Dybvig, Simon Peyton Jones, Amr Sabry. TR, June 2005. Delimited continuations are more expressive than traditional abortive...
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