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This paper describes the development of the programming language Erlang during the period 1985-1997. Erlang is a concurrent programming language designed for programming large-scale distributed soft real-time control applications. The design of Erlang was heavily influenced by id…
An interprocedural flow analysis can justify inlining in higher-order languages. In principle, more inlining can be performed as analysis accuracy improves. This paper compares four flow analyses to determine how effectively they justify inlining in practice. The paper makes two …
We observe that the principal typing property of a type system is the enabling technology for modularity and separate compilation [10]. We use this technology to formulate a modular and polyvariant closure analysis, based on the rank 2 intersection types annotated with control-fl…
In 1972, Reynolds outlined a general method for eliminating functional arguments known as defunctionalization. The idea underlying defunctionalization is encoding a functional value as first-order data, and then realizing the applications of the encoded function via an apply func…
We describe an algorithm for automatic inline expansion across module boundaries that works in the presence of higher-order functions and free variables; it rearranges bindings and scopes as necessary to move nonexpansive code from one module to another. We describe---and impleme…
The dynamic-sized tabulation method can be used to eliminate redundant calls for certain classes of recursive programs. An innovative aspect of the method is the use of lambda abstractions that may subsequently be converted to bounded vectors, in order to share redundant calls vi…
In this paper we describe the implementation of several graphical programming paradigms (Model View Controller, Fudgets, and Functional Animations) using the GUI library TkGofer. This library relies on a combination of monads and multiple-parameter type classes to provide an abst…
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We show how to implement a calculus with higher-order subtyping and subkinding by replacing uses of implicit subsumption with explicit coercions. To ensure this can be done, a polymorphic function is adjusted to take, as an additional argument, a proof that its type constructor a…
We present a new framework for transforming data representations in a strongly typed intermediate language. Our method allows both value producers (sources) and value consumers (sinks) to support multiple representations, automatically inserting any required code. Specialized rep…
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General media-processing programs are easily expressed with bit-addressing and variable-sized bit-fields. But the natural implementation of bit-addressing relies on dynamic shift offsets and repeated loads, resulting in slow execution. If the code is specialized to the alignment …
We extend type specialisation to a computational lambda calculus with first-class references. The resulting specialiser has been used to specialise a self-interpreter for this typed computational lambda calculus optimally. Furthermore, this specialiser can perform operations on r…
Fran (Functional Reactive Animation) is a collection of data types and functions for composing richly interactive, multi-media animations. The key ideas in Fran are its notions of behaviors and events. Behaviors are time-varying, reactive values, while events are sets of arbitrar…
Graph algorithms expressed in functional languages often suffer from their inherited imperative, state-based style. In particular, this impedes formal program manipulation. We show how to model persistent graphs in functional languages by graph constructors. This provides a decom…
Pattern abstractions increase the expressiveness of pattern matching, enabling the programmer to describe a broader class of regular forests with patterns. Furthermore, pattern abstractions support code reuse and code factoring, features that facilitate maintenance and evolution …
We present a methodology for the systematic realisation of control flow analyses and illustrate it for Concurrent ML. We start with an abstract specification of the analysis that is next proved semantically sound with respect to a traditional small-step operational semantics; thi…
We define a general notion of set-based analysis --- any language whose operational semantics is defined by environment evaluation has a well defined set-based abstraction. This general definition covers both Aiken and Wimmers' type system and Heintze' set-based analysis. Aiken a…