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A research blog about programming languages, databases, provenance, and other randomly-selected topics.
Monday, September 29, 2014
PPDP 2014
PPDP 2014
I attended PPDP 2014, in Canterbury, England a few weeks ago. Some notes about papers of interest there:
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Labels: functional reactive programming, logic programming, trip report
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Thursday, December 19, 2013
Asynchronous functional reactive programming for GUIs
Asynchronous functional reactive programming for GUIs
Evan Czaplicki and Stephen Chong
PLDI 2013 (see also http://elm-lang.org/)
This paper presents a new functional reactive programming-based programming language aimed at graphical user interaction (particularly on Web pages as embedded in Javascript). Graphical user interaction has frequently been cited as a motivation for FRP techniques since the first work on it by Elliott and Hudak. Early techniques had some significant performance problems, while more recent techniques have introduced restrictions or refinements that seek to reconcile convenient programming with efficiency.
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Labels: functional programming, functional reactive programming, graphical user interaction, programming languages
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