September 2006 - Haskell

6th Memory Management Network Workshop
by Simon Marlow 08 Sep '06

08 Sep '06

[ posting on behalf of Richard Jones [R.E.Jones(a)kent.ac.uk] ] ********************************************** * Call for Contributions * * 6th Memory Management Network Workshop * * Cambridge UK, Friday 10th November 2006 * ********************************************** We are pleased to announce the sixth UK MM-NET workshop, a day for talks on: - recent memory management research; - issues and experiences using memory management; - future demands and directions for study. where we define memory management broadly to include topics such as: - garbage collection of main-memory, persistent and distributed systems, - explicit dynamic memory allocation/de-allocation, - measurement of memory system workloads, such as access patterns and object demographics, - interactions between programming languages, operating systems and hardware. We aim to strengthen the network of researchers and developers, as a resource to improve all our results -- be they in research or commercial application. If you have a new result, tool, or war-story, the workshop is an ideal informal setting to spread the word about it. The following subjects are of particular interest for this workshop: - language VMs; - improving adoption of better memory management practice. To contribute a talk or demonstration, please contact the Programme Co-chairs. Slots can be from as little as 20 minutes up to 1 hour. The day will run from 10am to 5pm. Researchers and developers are welcome to attend; there is no attendance fee, but registration is required. The workshop will be held at the University Centre, Cambridge, UK, and is sponsored by Ravenbrook Limited. CONTRIBUTIONS Talks on all memory management topics will be considered. Please contact the Programme Co-chairs: Richard Jones of the University of Kent, and Richard Kistruck of Ravenbrook Limited, at: mmw06(a)ravenbrook.com. Presentation of recent and ongoing work is welcomed: workshop presentations are not considered to be publications of original research (thus do not present a bar to submissions to other conferences or journals). Informal demonstrations of working systems and tools are also welcomed. REGISTRATIONS Ravenbrook Limited is acting as registration secretary. Please email mmw06(a)ravenbrook.com to register. FURTHER INFORMATION <http://www.mm-net.org.uk/> MM-NET is a network of researchers, interested in memory management for programming languages. The project's mission is to strengthen collaboration between UK industry and academia to further research and development of advanced memory management systems. MM-NET's previous workshops have been highly successful in this respect, bringing together researchers with interests ranging from logics for reasoning about memory use to developers of embedded systems. <http://www.mm-net.org.uk/> Ravenbrook Limited is a software engineering consultancy with expertise in memory management, programming language implementation, and wider software engineering issues. Ravenbrook develops the MPS (Memory Pool System), a flexible open-source memory management and garbage collection framework. Ravenbrook is based in Cambridge, UK. <http://www.ravenbrook.com/> Richard Jones Richard Kistruck Workshop co-chairs

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AOSD 2007: final call
by Oege.de.Moor＠comlab.ox.ac.uk 07 Sep '06

07 Sep '06

AOSD 2007: FINAL CALL FOR RESEARCH PAPERS 6th Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development http://www.aosd.net/2007/cfc/research.php >> THREE weeks until deadline << Abstracts: September 22 Full papers: September 29 ------------------------------------------------------ AOSD is the premier conference on software modularity that crosscuts traditional abstraction boundaries. AOSD brings together researchers and practitioners working in the fields of software engineering, programming languages and software systems. The program committee especially welcomes submissions from researchers in functional programming on any topic relating to aspect-oriented extensions of Haskell (or why you don't need them!)

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Principal variation search
by Rene de Visser 04 Sep '06

04 Sep '06

I've added some code of mine for principal variation search in haskell to the wiki http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/PrincipalVariationSearch It might need a couple of strictness annotations for best performance, but it worked ok for me as is, when compiled with -O2 on GHC. It is fairly basic (lacks support for hash tables for example). But most other things can be done by generating the move tree lazily in the right way (example move ordering). Rene.

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Re: [Haskell] putStr is not evaluated in the correct order
by Paul Johnson 04 Sep '06

04 Sep '06

"Andreas S" <andreas_s(a)hotmail.com> writes: > This works find in ghci, but the compiled code (ghc 6.4.2) executes getLine > first before executing putStr. Instead of: > Who are you? myself > Hello, myself > > I got: > myself >Who are you? Hello, myself I have now fixed the WikiBook to use putStrLn instead of putStr. Sorry about that. Paul.

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Re: Call for Posters, APLAS 2006 (in Sydney, in November)
by Eijiro Sumii 04 Sep '06

04 Sep '06

The deadline of abstracts for APALS 2006 poster presentation is approaching. http://www.kb.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/aplas2006/ http://www.kb.ecei.tohoku.ac.jp/aplas2006/call-for-posters.txt Our web server is now alive. (It was down because of power outage when this announcement was distributed last time. We are sorry if you experienced any inconvenience.) Eijiro Sumii APLAS 2006 Poster Chair > CALL FOR POSTER PRESENTATIONS > > The Fourth ASIAN Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems > (APLAS 2006) > > November 8-10, 2006 > University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia > > Deadline for Abstracts: September 11, 2006 > > APLAS 2006 will include a poster session during the conference. The > session aims to give students and researchers an opportunity to > present their research to the community, and to get responses from > other researchers. > > SCOPE: > > Poster presentations are sought in all areas of programming languages > and systems, including (but not limited to): > > - semantics, logics, foundational theory > - type systems, language design > - program analysis, optimization, transformation > - software security, safety, verification > - compiler systems, interpreters, abstract machines > - domain-specific languages and systems > - programming tools and environments > > FORMAT: > > A space of A1 paper size (594 mm wide and 841 mm high) will be > provided for each presentation. If you need more space, contact the > poster chair (sumii AT ecei DOT tohoku DOT ac DOT jp). Links that may > be useful for preparing good posters include: > > - http://www.kumc.edu/SAH/OTEd/jradel/Poster_Presentations/PstrStart.html > - http://www.siam.org/siamnews/general/poster.htm > > REGISTRATION: > > Each presenter should e-mail a 1-2 page abstract in PDF or PostScript > to the poster chair (sumii AT ecei DOT tohoku DOT ac DOT jp) by > September 11th, 2006. The program of the poster session will be > announced by September 22nd, 2006. We hope to accommodate every > poster, but may restrict presentations (based on relevance and > interest to the community) for the limitation of space. We may also > need to cancel the session if there are too few presentations. > > IMPORTANT DATES: > > - 1-2 page abstract submission deadline September 11, 2006 > - notification September 22, 2006 > - conference November 8-10, 2006 > > CONTACT: > > For questions or requests, please contact the APLAS 2006 poster chair, > Eijiro Sumii (sumii AT ecei DOT tohoku DOT ac DOT jp).

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Haskell XML
by Lucius Meredith 01 Sep '06

01 Sep '06

All, Apologies if this question has been beaten to death, but i'm wondering if anyone out there has plans to do a language-level support for XML processing ala OCamlDuce. i would really like to be writing more code in Haskell, but XML is in almost everything i touch and OCamlDuce provides the right level of compiler support for the sorts of applications i'm writing. Best wishes, --greg -- L.G. Meredith Partner Biosimilarity LLC 505 N 72nd St Seattle, WA 98103 +1 206.650.3740

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