Full Description
This volume is published in Honor of Philip
Wadler on the occasion of his 60th birthday, and the collection of papers form
a Festschrift for him. The contributions are made by some of the many who know
Phil and have been influenced by him. The research papers included here
represent some of the areas in which Phil has been active, and the editors
thank their colleagues for agreeing to contribute to this Festschrift. We attempt
to summarize Phil Wadler's scientific achievements. In addition, we describe
the personal style and enthusiasm that Phil has brought to the subject.
Contents
Reactions on Monadic Lenses.- Conation Confers
Concurrency.- Counting Successes: Effects and Transformations for Non-deterministic
Programs.- The Essence of Inheritance.- Subtyping Supports Safe Session Substitution.-
Proof Relevant Parametricity.- Comprehending Ringads.- Dragging Proofs out of
Pictures.- Experiences with QuickCheck: Testing the Hard Stuff and Staying
Sane.- Cutting out Continuations.- The Lambda Calculus: Practice and
Principle.- I Got Plenty o' Nuttin'.- Pointlessness Is Better than Listlessness.-
The Essence of Dependent Object Types.- Linear lambda-mu Is CP (more or less).-
A Reaction on types.- The Essence of Multi-Stage Evaluation in LMS.- 1ML with
Special Effects.- The Computer Scientist Nightmare.- A Branding Strategy for
Business Types.- The Recursive Union of Some Gradual Types.- A Delta for Hybrid
Type Checking.- Certifying Data in Multiparty Session Types.- Recursion Equations
as a Programming Language.
