I've added SRFI 231, Intervals and Generalized Arrays, to the Gambit
source tree:
https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-231/
SRFI 231 is an updated and improved version of SRFI 179.
There are a few incompatible changes between the two SRFIs, see
https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-231/srfi-231.html#Rationale
As SRFI 231 improves SRFI 179 in almost every way, I intend to remove
SRFI 179 support from the GitHub repository soon.
Brad
Due to the untimely passing of Eelco Visser, members of his former
research communities TU Delft, CWI, OOPSLA, SLE, and IFIP Working
Groups 2.11 & 2.16 have joined in organizing the Eelco Visser
Commemorative Symposium. The event will be held on the occasion of the
first anniversary of his passing in April of next year. You are
cordially invited to contribute to this symposium, by writing a paper
and giving a presentation related to Eelco and his influential work,
or by just attending. Please see the CfP below.
Best regards,
The EVCS Organizing Committee
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Eelco Visser Commemorative Symposium (EVCS)
5 April 2023
Delft, The Netherlands
https://symposium.eelcovisser.org
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Eelco Visser (1966–2022) was Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor of
Computer Science and Chair of the Programming Languages Group in the
Department of Software Technology at TU Delft. His research career
started with studies at the University of Amsterdam and CWI, followed
by appointments at Oregon Graduate Institute and Utrecht University.
He was highly influential in the software language engineering and
programming language design communities. His many scientific
contributions about meta-languages and domain-specific languages have
been of high importance in both the scientific and industrial
communities. He was a founding member of IFIP Working Groups 2.11
(Program Generation) and 2.16 (Programming Language Design).
Eelco Visser’s work on the cutting-edge language workbench Spoofax
started with a ground-breaking publication in 2010, for which he
received a Most Influential Paper award at OOPSLA 2020. As a strong
advocate of tool-supported programming education, he led the
development of WebLab, a learning management system that is in use for
a range of programming languages and courses at TU Delft. He also led
the design, implementation and use of conf.researchr.org, a content
management system for scientific events used for hundreds of
international events since 2014.
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Call for Papers
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A commemorative symposium for Eelco Visser is to be held on the first
anniversary of his untimely passing in April 2022. It will bring
together colleagues from various communities, with presentations of
papers on topics related to his research and his other academic
activities.
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Topics of Interest
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Language engineering
- Program transformation
- Language workbenches
- Declarative language specification
- Name binding and scope graphs
- Type soundness and intrinsically-typed interpreters
- Language specification testing
- Language implementation generation
- Domain-specific programming languages
- DSLs for software deployment
- DSLs for web application development
- Tool-supported programming education
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Important Dates
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- Friday 30 September 2022: Declaration of intent to submit
- Friday 28 October 2022: Paper submission deadline
- Monday 28 November 2022: Notifications
- Wednesday 5 April 2023: Symposium
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Types of Submissions
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- **Unpublished research**: These are extended abstracts of novel
research contributions related to Eelco Visser’s work. Papers may
range from 4 to 8 pages in length, and may optionally include up to 2
further pages of bibliography. Papers will be reviewed by selected
members of the relevant research communities. Subsequent submission of
full papers including the same results to other venues is encouraged.
- **On the relationship between Eelco Visser's work and other
frameworks**: These are papers that present some framework and explain
its relationship to his work, but without novel research
contributions. Papers may range from 4 to 8 pages in length, and may
optionally include up to 2 further pages of bibliography. Papers will
be reviewed by experts on the relevant topics.
- **Personal reflections on Eelco Visser's activities**: These are
short papers that recall and reflect upon personal experiences of his
contributions in academia or industry. Papers may range from 1 to 4
pages in length, including bibliography. Papers will be lightly
reviewed for relevance.
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Submissions
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The submission website is on EasyChair
(https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=evcs2023). **Declaration of
intent to submit is optional**, but helpful for allocation of
appropriate reviewers. It is to include a provisional title, the type
of submission, and an indication of the topics covered. **Submitted
papers** should be formatted using LaTeX according to the author
instructions for the Dagstuhl OpenAccess Series in Informatics
(OASIcs) (https://submission.dagstuhl.de/series/details/4#author),
respecting the page limits indicated above.
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Publication
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All accepted papers will appear in the Proceedings of the EVCS, to be
published as a volume in the Dagstuhl OpenAccess Series in Informatics
(OASIcs) (https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/oasics). Authors
retain copyright.
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Presentations
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All accepted papers are to be presented at the symposium. Presenters
may choose between 5, 10, and 15-minute slots (including questions)
subject to availability. Remote presentations are possible.
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Organising Committee
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- Jonathan Aldrich, Carnegie Mellon University
- Benoit Combemale, University of Rennes, Inria, and IRISA
- Paul Klint, CWI and University of Amsterdam
- Ralf Lämmel, University of Koblenz
- Peter Mosses (chair), TU Delft and Swansea University
- Friedrich Steimann, Fernuniversität in Hagen
- Tijs van der Storm, CWI and University of Groningen
- Eric Van Wyk, University of Minnesota
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Local Organisation Committee
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- Arie van Deursen
- Peter Mosses
- Roniet Sharabi
- Shémara van der Zwet
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Contact
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For all enquiries about the symposium, please use the contact form
(https://symposium.eelcovisser.org/contact) or email
symposium(a)eelcovisser.org
# TFP 2023 -- Call for Papers
(trendsfp.github.io)
## Important Dates
Submission deadline: pre-symposium, full papers, Wednesday 23rd
November, 2022
Submission deadline: pre-symposium, draft papers, Friday 16th December, 2022
Notification: pre-symposium submissions, Friday 23rd December, 2022
Registration: Friday 6th January, 2023
TFPIE Workshop: Thursday 12th January,
2023
TFP Symposium: Friday 13th - Sunday
15th January, 2023
Submission deadline: post-symposium review, Friday 17th February, 2023
Notification: post-symposium submissions, Friday 31st March, 2023
The Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming (TFP) is an
international forum for researchers with interests in all aspects of
functional programming, taking a broad view of current and future
trends in the area. It aspires to be a lively environment for
presenting the latest research results, and other contributions.
This year, TFP will take place in-person at UMass Boston,
Massachusetts in the United States. It is co-located with the Trends
in Functional Programming in Education (TFPIE) workshop, which will
take on the day before the main symposium.
Please be aware that TFP has several submission deadlines. The first,
November 23, is for authors that wish to have their full paper
reviewed prior to the symposium. Papers that are accepted in this way
must also be presented at the symposium. The second, December 16, is
for authors that wish to present their work or work-in progress at the
symposium first without submitting to the full review process for
publication. These authors can then take into account
feedback received at the symposium and submit a full article for
review by the third deadline, February 17.
## Scope
The symposium recognizes that new trends may arise through various
routes. As part of the Symposium's focus on trends we therefore
identify the following five article categories. High-quality articles
are solicited in any of these categories:
* Research Articles:
Leading-edge, previously unpublished research work
* Position Articles:
On what new trends should or should not be
* Project Articles:
Descriptions of recently started new projects
* Evaluation Articles:
What lessons can be drawn from a finished project
* Overview Articles:
Summarizing work with respect to a trendy subject
Articles must be original and not simultaneously submitted for
publication to any other forum. They may consider any aspect of
functional programming: theoretical, implementation-oriented, or
experience-oriented. Applications of functional programming techniques
to other languages are also within the scope of the symposium.
Topics suitable for the symposium include, but are not limited to:
* Functional programming and multicore/manycore computing
* Functional programming in the cloud
* High performance functional computing
* Extra-functional (behavioural) properties of functional programs
* Dependently typed functional programming
* Validation and verification of functional programs
* Debugging and profiling for functional languages
* Functional programming in different application areas:
security, mobility, telecommunications applications, embedded
systems, global computing, grids, etc.
* Interoperability with imperative programming languages
* Novel memory management techniques
* Program analysis and transformation techniques
* Empirical performance studies
* Abstract/virtual machines and compilers for functional languages
* (Embedded) domain specific languages
* New implementation strategies
* Any new emerging trend in the functional programming area
If you are in doubt on whether your article is within the scope of
TFP, please contact the TFP 2023 program chair, Stephen Chang.
## Best Paper Awards
TFP awards two prizes for the best papers each year.
First, to reward excellent contributions, TFP awards a prize for the best
overall paper accepted for the post-conference formal proceedings.
Second, a prize for the best student paper is awarded each year.
TFP traditionally pays special attention to research students,
acknowledging that students are almost by definition part of new
subject trends. A student paper is one for which the authors state
that the paper is mainly the work of students, the students are listed
as first authors, and a student would present the paper.
In both cases, it is the PC of TFP that awards the prize. In case the
best paper happens to be a student paper, then that paper will receive
both prizes.
## Instructions to Authors
Papers must be submitted at:
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tfp23>
Authors of papers have the choice of having their contributions
formally reviewed either before or after the Symposium.
Further, pre-symposium submissions may either be full (earlier deadline)
or draft papers (later deadline).
## Pre-symposium formal review
Papers to be formally reviewed before the symposium should be
submitted before the early deadline and will receive their reviews and
notification of acceptance for both presentation and publication
before the symposium. A paper that has been rejected for publication
but accepted for presentation may be resubmitted for the
post-symposium formal review.
## Post-symposium formal review
Draft papers will receive minimal reviews and notification of
acceptance for presentation at the symposium. Authors of draft papers
will be invited to submit revised papers based on the feedback receive
at the symposium. A post-symposium refereeing process will then select
a subset of these articles for formal publication.
## Paper categories
Draft papers and papers submitted for formal review are submitted as
extended abstracts (4 to 10 pages in length) or full papers (20
pages). The submission must clearly indicate which category it belongs
to: research, position, project, evaluation, or overview paper. It
should also indicate which authors are research students, and whether
the main author(s) are students. A draft paper for which all authors
are students will receive additional feedback by one of the PC members
shortly after the symposium has taken place.
## Format
Papers must be written in English, and written using the LNCS
style. For more information about formatting please consult the
Springer LNCS web site.
## Program Committee
Peter Achten, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
Nada Amin, Harvard University, USA
Ambrose Bonnaire-Sergeant, Untypable LLC, USA
Laura M. Castro, University of A Coruña, Spain
Stephen Chang (Chair), University of Massachusetts Boston, US
John Clements, Cal Poly, USA
Youyou Cong, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Paul Downen, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA
Kathy Gray, Meta Platforms, Inc., UK
Ben Greenman, University of Utah, USA
Jason Hemann, Seton Hall University, USA
Patricia Johann, Appalachian State University, USA
Alexis King, Tweag, USA
Julia Lawall, Inria-Paris, France
Barak Pearlmutter, Maynooth University, Ireland
Norman Ramsey, Tufts University, USA
Ilya Sergey, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Melinda Tóth, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
Ningning Xie, University of Toronto, Canada
Hi,
I released new versions of my scheme LSP server and some LSP clients.
The biggest change is that they now have Gambit support :) Thanks Marc
for the help.
The software is still in an early stage of development. You can find the
LSP server here: https://codeberg.org/rgherdt/scheme-lsp-server
Some important notes regarding Gambit:
- only Gambit 4.9.4+ is supported. I recommend installing Gambit from
its master branch, since it has important bug fixes for GSC regarding
some R7RS forms this library relies on (particularly `guard`). If you
want to stick to Gambit 4.9.4, don't compile the library after
installing it, otherwise it won't work.
- I only tested this on Linux, but would expect that it also works on
Mac.
- some of the LSP clients listed below will prompt for automatically
installing the LSP server if needed.
Currently following LSP clients are available:
* Emacs
- lsp-scheme
Available in MELPA. The extension will prompt for installing the LSP
server if it's not found.
Here the source code: https://codeberg.org/rgherdt/emacs-lsp-scheme
- eglot
Follow these instructions to activate the LSP server for eglot:
https://codeberg.org/rgherdt/scheme-lsp-server#emacs-eglot-https-github-com…
* VSCode/VSCodium
- vscode-scheme-lsp
Available both in VSCode's and VSCodium's marketplaces under the name
Scheme LSP.
The extension will prompt for auto-installing the LSP server if it's
not found.
Source code: https://codeberg.org/rgherdt/vscode-scheme-lsp
After installing any of these extensions, don't forget to configure it
for Gambit before start using it. Refer to the corresponding docs to see
how to do this.
Let me know if you have any trouble using them.
Regards,
Ricardo
Hi all Gambit users,
Pr. Feeley and I have just released a new module for Gambit. The 'python' module is available at https://github.com/gambit/python. It is a Foreign Function Interface (FFI) to CPython which combines a low-level API with a syntactic interface that allows Gambit users to interface with Python code. The module also offers a Foreign Procedure Call mechanism that bridges the CPython and Gambit threading models.
For example, it is now possible for Gambit users to import Python modules as such:
> \import math
> (cos \math.pi)
-1.
This module requires a recent Gambit version compiled with the '--enable-multiple-threaded-vms' option. The GitHub repo contains a short README with instructions as well as a few examples to get you started. We will be giving a talk about our work at the upcoming Scheme Workshop (https://icfp22.sigplan.org/details/scheme-2022-papers/7/An-FFI-between-Gamb…). You can get a preprint of the accompanying article at https://andykeep.com/SchemeWorkshop2022/scheme2022-final22.pdf .
We had fun developing this and while there are still a couple of known kinks, the software is generally quite stable and enjoyable. Please notify us of any problems, or just to showcase your work!
Cheers,
--
Marc-André Bélanger