[ Apologies for multiple postings; please forward to potentially interested parties ] CUFP 2005 THE SECOND COMMERCIAL USERS OF FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING WORKSHOP Talinn, Estonia September 24th 2005 Co-located with ICFP Functional languages have been under academic development for over 25 years, and are still proving to be very fertile ground for programming language research. Consequently, most of the development focus of these languages is driven by academic and theoretical questions. More recently, however, functional languages have been very successfully used in commercial, industrial, and government settings, where their advantages have been able to be leveraged dramatically. The goal of CUFP is to act as a voice for commercial users of functional programming languages and technology. It aims to help functional programming become increasingly viable as a technology for use in the commercial, industrial, and government space, by providing a forum for FP professionals to share their experiences and ideas, whether business, management or engineering. It also aims to enable the formation and cementing of relationships and alliances that further the commercial use of functional languages. Providing user feedback to language designers and implementors is not a primary goal of the workshop, though it will be welcome if it occurs. Program plans ------------- The meeting will last a full day, with a mix of invited and submitted presentations, plus discussion sessions. Topics will range over a wide area, including: * Case studies both 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 FP. There will be no published proceedings, as the meeting is intended to be more a discussion forum than a technical interchange. A full report of last year's workshop will appear in the Functional Programming column of SIGPLAN Notices. See http://www.galois.com/cufp/ for more information, including last year's schedule and a report describing last year's workshop. This year's schedule will also be available there soon. Submissions ----------- Submissions by prospective speakers or suggestions for speakers are welcome! Just send an e-mail to cufp at galois.com with an outline of what you'd like to talk about or what you think your suggestee should give a talk about. Program Committee ----------------- Mike Ashley: Mike.Ashley at sagian.com Jim Grundy: Jim_Grundy at ichips.intel.com Xavier Leroy: Xavier.Leroy at inria.fr Simon Peyton Jones: simonpj at microsoft.com Ulf Wiger: ulf.wiger at ericsson.com Andy Moran: moran at galois.com John Launchbury: john at galois.com (Chair) -- Andy Moran Phone: 503.626.6616, x113 Galois Connections Inc. Fax: 503.350.0833 12725 SW Millikan Way, Suite #290 http://www.galois.com Beaverton, OR 97005 moran@galois.com