Product Description: Where is this story set and how do you define what it is about? Well, now you’re asking for it. Dimensions and space, here on Earth and elsewhere, everywhere in fact. Our madness here on Earth is our own preferential madness but let us not assume that madness is the only brand...read more

Product Description: Papers from the 3rd Scottish Functional Programming Workshop, held in August 2001 in Stirling, Scotland, cover issues related to applications, compiler optimizations, parallelism, and type theory, as well as language design, proof and transformation, semantics and models, performance modeling and profiling, and programming methodologies...read more

Product Description: The theatrum mundi metaphor was well-known in the Golden Age, and was often employed, notably by Calderón in his religious theatre. However, little account has been given of the everyday exploitation of the idea of the world as stage in the mainstream drama of the Golden Age...read more

Product Description: Programming is hard. Building a large program is like constructing a steam locomotive through a hole the size of a postage stamp. An artefact that is the fruit of hundreds of person-years is only ever seen by anyone through a lOO-line window...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on the Implementation of Functional Languages, IFL'98, held in London, UK, in September 1998.The 15 revised full papers presented were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Implementation of Functional Languages, IFL'97, held in St. Andrews, Scotland, UK, in September 1997.The 21 revised full papers presented were selected from the 34 papers accepted for presentation at the workshop during a second round of thorough a-posteriori reviewing...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is the proceedings of the seventh annual workshop held by the Glasgow Functional Programming Group. The purpose of the workshop is to provide a focus for new research, to foster research contacts with other functional language researchers, and to provide a platform for research students to develop their presentation skills...read more

Product Description: The Workshops in Computing series is the result of a collaborative venture between the British Computer Society and Springer-Verlag. It is international in scope.Each volume is based on the proceedings of a specialist workshop and is designed to provide information that represents a 'snapshot' of current knowledge, debate or research...read more