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April 1, 2008 on 9:24 am | By Neil | In News | Comments Off

[The following message is posted at the request of Simon Peyton-Jones]

Dear London Hugger

Below is a call for presentations for the 2008 Commercial Users of Functional Programming Workshop. Many of you are commercial users, and this call is for you! There is no paper, no proceedings — just come along and tell us your story.

Details below. Please consider offering a presentation (or nominating someone else!).

Simon

Commercial Users of Functional Programming Workshop (CUFP) 2008

26 September 2008, Victoria, British Columbia

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS

Presentation proposals due 2 June 2008

http://cufp.functionalprogramming.com

Functional Programming As a Means, Not an End
Sponsored by SIGPLAN

Co-located with ICFP 2008

Functional languages have been under academic development for over 25 years, and remain fertile ground for programming language research. Recently, however, developers in industrial, governmental, and open source projects have begun to use functional programming successfully in practical applications. In these settings, functional programming has often provided dramatic leverage, including whole new ways of thinking about the original problem.

The goal of the CUFP workshop is to act as a voice for these users of functional programming. The workshop supports the increasing viability of functional programming in the commercial, governmental, and open-source space by providing a forum for professionals to share their experiences and ideas, whether those ideas are related to business, management, or engineering. The workshop is also designed to enable the formation and reinforcement of relationships that further the commercial use of functional programming.

Speaking at CUFP

If you use functional programming as a means, rather than as an end, we invite you to offer to give a talk at the workshop. Alternatively, if you know someone who would give a good talk, please nominate them!

Talks are typically 30-45 minutes long, but can be shorter. They aim to inform participants about how functional programming played out in real-world applications, focusing especially on the re-usable lessons learned, or insights gained. Your talk does not need to be highly technical; for this audience, reflections on the commercial, management, or software engineering aspects are, if anything, more important. You do not need to submit a paper!

If you are interested in offering a talk, or nominating someone to do so, send an e-mail to jim (dot) d (dot) grundy (at) intel (dot) com or simonpj (at) microsoft (dot) com by 2 June 2008 with a short description of what you’d like to talk about or what you think your nominee should give a talk about. Such descriptions should be about one page long.

Program Plans

CUFP 2008 will last a full day and feature an invited presentation from Michael Hopcroft, the product unit manager for the forthcoming release of Microsoft Visual Studio F#. Additionally, the program will include a mix of presentations and discussion sessions. Topics will range over a wide area, including:

Case studies of successful and unsuccessful uses of functional programming;
Business opportunities and risks from using functional languages;
Enablers for functional language use in a commercial setting;
Barriers to the adoption of functional languages, and
Mitigation strategies for overcoming limitations of functional programming.

There will be no published proceedings, as the meeting is intended to be more a discussion forum than a technical interchange.

Program Committee

Lennart Augustsson
Matthias Blume
Adam Granicz
Jim Grundy (co-chair)
John Lalonde
Andy Martin
Yaron Minsky
Simon Peyton Jones (co-chair)
Ulf Wiger

This will be the fifth CUFP, for more information - including reports from attendees of previous events - see the workshop web site:

http://cufp.functionalprogramming.com

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