There was a small controversy last year about parser combinators, a convenient way of rapidly developing parsers in a functional style. Yacc is presumably chosen as the archetypal non-combinator parser generator, requiring separate external parser compiler, known for being a pain to use. “Yacc is dead” (ltu discussion) “Yacc is not dead“ “Yacc is dead: …
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Continuation Patterns
Interesting paper on the topic of various program patterns implemented in coroutine. As mentioned in a previous post, continuations are a powerful control flow primitive — they can be used for: Call with Current Continuation Patterns, Ferguson & Deugo Escaping recursive procedures and loops Reentry into recursion Coroutines Backtracking Simulating multitasking The paper covers these …
ICFP Competition
International Conference for Functional Programming. Each year, they hold a conference on topics in programming language and functional programming techniques.