Functional programming and parallel processing

Lins, Rafael Dueire

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“…Parallelism and functional programming have been together for a quarter of century. The history of parallel functional programming can be divided into two periods (Lins, 1997). The first spans from 1975 to 1987, and opened when Burge suggested the technique of evaluating function arguments in parallel, and perhaps also exploiting speculative evaluation.…”

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Research Directions in Parallel Functional Programming by Kevin Hammond and Greg Michaelson, editors, Springer-Verlag, 1999.

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2000

J. Funct. Prog.

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This textbook offers a novel and intuitively appealing approach to teaching functional programming (and Haskell in particular): that is to focus on some interesting application area(s) and develop a sequence of libraries for this area, introducing language concepts as needed. This approach is particularly attractive for Haskell, since one of the major strengths of the language is its power as host language for domain-specific languages.The theme of the book is multimedia applications. The major part of the book is devoted to the development of a series of increasingly sophisticated tools for graphics and animation. There are also passages on robotics and computer music, but these are considerably shorter and less developed.The example-driven presentation actually introduces new Haskell features on two different scales. On a larger scale, chapters alternate between three categories:

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