Advanced Functional Programming: 4th International School, AFP 2002, Oxford, UK, August 19-24, 2002. Revised Lectures

Richard Bird, Jeremy Gibbons (auth.), Johan Jeuring, Simon L. Peyton Jones (eds.)3540401326, 9783540401322

This tutorial book presents seven revised lectures given by leading researchers at the 4th International School on Functional Programming, AFP 2002, in Oxford, UK in August 2002.

The lectures presented introduce tools, language features, domain-specific languages, problem domains, and programming methods. All lectures contain exercises and practical assignments. The software accompanying the lectures can be accessed from the AFP 2002 Web site. This book is designed to enable individuals, small groups of students, and lecturers to study recent work in the rapidly developing area of functional programming.

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Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
Arithmetic Coding with Folds and Unfolds….Pages 1-26
An Approach to Fast Arrays in Haskell….Pages 27-58
Testing and Tracing Lazy Functional Programs Using QuickCheck and Hat….Pages 59-99
Developing Interactive Web Programs….Pages 100-128
JoCaml: A Language for Concurrent Distributed and Mobile Programming….Pages 129-158
Arrows, Robots, and Functional Reactive Programming….Pages 159-187
XQuery: A Typed Functional Language for Querying XML….Pages 188-212
Back Matter….Pages –