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Zeus WerkgroeP Informatica

Starttijd

26-06-2013 19:00

Eindtijd

26-06-2013 22:00

Locatie

Jozef Plateauzaal, Plateau

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Beschrijving

The main presentation, by Adam Bergmark from Silk [3] is about Fay [4]:

Fay is a proper subset of Haskell that compiles to JavaScript. There is a
compiler with the same name written in Haskell. Web browsers only speak
JavaScript but more and more people find that they want to compile to
JavaScript instead.

Why do we want to compile Haskell to JavaScript, and what advantages does
Fay have compared to other compilers?

What are the challenges in compiling Haskell and supporting a language
ecosystem, and how do we do it?

What can Fay currently do, and what is planned for the future?

This will be a broad overview about Fay for prospective users, followed by
an in-depth look at interesting parts of the compiler internals.

Additionally, there will be two short talks by two students who did an Msc. Thesis
about functional programming languages:

\"Genetic Algorithms in Haskell\" by Matthias Delbar
\"Automatic Detection of Recursion Patterns\" by Jasper Van der Jeugt

[1]: http://groups.google.com/group/ghent-fpg
[2]: http://zeus.ugent.be/
[3]: http://www.silkapp.com/
[4]: http://www.fay-lang.org/