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[TFPIE'21] First Call For Papers: Trends in Functional Programming *in Education* 2021, 16 February (with Lambda Days 2021 & TFP 2021)
by Peter Achten 29 Sep '20

29 Sep '20

-------------------------------- TFPIE 2021 Call for papers -------------------------------- https://wiki.tfpie.science.ru.nl/TFPIE2021#TFPIE_2021 (February 16 2021, co-organized with TFP 2021 and Lambda Days 2021) The goal of the International Workshops on Trends in Functional Programming in Education is to gather researchers, professors, teachers, and all professionals that use or are interested in the use of functional programming in education. TFPIE aims to be a venue where novel ideas, classroom-tested ideas, and work in progress on the use of functional programming in education are discussed. The one-day workshop will foster a spirit of open discussion by having a review process for publication after the workshop. TFPIE 2021 welcomes submissions in the above mentioned areas. This year many teaching programmes have had to make a rapid transition to online teaching, and we explicitly solicit papers that explore this area of teaching functional programming. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - FP and beginning CS students - FP and Computational Thinking - FP and Artificial Intelligence - FP in Robotics - FP and Music - Advanced FP for undergraduates - FP in graduate education - Engaging students in research using FP - FP in Programming Languages - FP in the high school curriculum - FP as a stepping stone to other CS topics - FP and Philosophy - The pedagogy of teaching FP - FP and e-learning: MOOCs, automated assessment etc. - Best Lectures - more details below In addition to papers, we are requesting best lecture presentations. What's your best lecture topic in an FP related course? Do you have a fun way to present FP concepts to novices or perhaps an especially interesting presentation of a difficult topic? In either case, please consider sharing it. Best lecture topics will be selected for presentation based on a short abstract describing the lecture and its interest to TFPIE attendees. The length of the presentation should be comparable to that of a paper. On top of the lecture itself, the presentation can also provide commentary on the lecture. Submissions Potential presenters are invited to submit an extended abstract (4-6 pages) or a draft paper (up to 20 pages) in EPTCS style. The authors of accepted presentations will have their preprints and their slides made available on the workshop's website. Papers and abstracts can be submitted via easychair at the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tfpie2021 After the workshop, presenters are invited to submit (a revised version of) their article for review. The PC will select the best articles. We plan to publish them in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS). Articles rejected for presentation and extended abstracts will not be formally reviewed by the PC. Dates - Submission deadline: January 11 2021, Anywhere on Earth. - Notification: January 15 2021 - Workshop: February 16 2021 - Submission for formal review: April 20 2021, Anywhere on Earth. - Notification of full article: June 7 2021 - Camera ready: July 1st 2021 Program Committee (under construction) - Peter Achten, Radboud University, Netherlands (chair) - Edwin Brady, University of St Andrews, UK - Laura Castro, Universidade da Coruña, Spain - Stephen Chang, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA - Youyou Cong, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan - Matthew Flatt, University of Utah, USA - Alex Gerdes, University of Gothenburg, Sweden - Prabhakar Ragde, University of Waterloo, Canada - Melinda Tóth, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary Registration TFPIE is part of Lambda Days. Please visit the Lambda Days 2021 pages when registration information becomes available. Registration is mandatory for at least one author of every paper that is presented at the workshop. Only papers that have been presented at TFPIE may be submitted to the post-reviewing process. Information on Lambda Days is available at https://www.lambdadays.org/lambdadays2021 Information on TFP is available at http://tfp2021.org

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[TFP'21] first call for papers: Trends in Functional Programming 2021, 17-19 February (with Lambda Days 2021 & TFPIE 2021)
by Peter Achten 29 Sep '20

29 Sep '20

------------------------------------------------------------------------- First call for papers 22nd Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming tfp2021.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. * TFP offers a supportive reviewing process designed to help less experienced authors succeed, with two rounds of review, both before and after the symposium itself. Authors have an opportunity to address reviewers' concerns before final decisions on publication in the proceedings. * TFP offers two "best paper" awards, the John McCarthy award for best paper, and the David Turner award for best student paper. * TFP is co-located with Lambda Days in beautiful Krakow. Lambda Days is a vibrant developer conference with hundreds of attendees and a lively programme of talks on functional programming in practice. Due to the covid pandemic, the event is online with a lot of attention to interaction and getting to socialize with the community. Important Dates --------------- Submission deadline for pre-symposium review: 20th November, 2020 Submission deadline for draft papers: 15th January, 2021 Symposium dates: 17-19th February, 2021 * We strongly encourage authors to submit their work for the first deadline. Authors whose papers are accepted for presentation, but not immediately for the proceedings in this first round, will have almost two months to address the reviewers' concerns. Papers submitted for the first deadline will also have priority for the presentation slots at the symposium. Visit tfp2021.org for more information.

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Fix IPv6 support
by Jörg F. Wittenberger 09 Sep '20

09 Sep '20

Sorry, if this reaches you twice. Looks like I accidentally sent this out yesterday with github-noreply. The attached file `testtcp.scm` fails with gambit 0.9.2 here. With the attached patch applied it prints "Success!". Another sorry: the patch is against 0.9.2 since I can't build current master using 0.9.3 (and can't use 0.9.3 with lambdanative for testing). Otherwise the patch addresses the - to me at least surprising - fact that on my Linux box `sizeof(struct sockaddr)` is smaller than `sizeof(struct sockaddr_in6)`. Additionally it provides a sensible default for the local address to use with `open-tcp-client`. Best Jörg BTW: After too many failed attempts like `make from-scratch` etc. I'd really love to learn how build githug/master.

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First and Only Call for Participation for IFL 2020 (Implementation and Application of Functional Languages)
by Jurriaan Hage 26 Aoû '20

26 Aoû '20

Hello, Please, find below the first and final call for participation for IFL 2020. Please forward these to anyone you think may be interested. Apologies for any duplicates you may receive. best regards, Jurriaan Hage Publicity Chair of IFL ======================================================= IFL 2020 32nd Symposium on Implementation and Application of Functional Languages Call for Participation venue: online 2nd - 4th September 2020 https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/events/2020/ifl20/ ======================================================== ### Scope The goal of the IFL symposia is to bring together researchers actively engaged in the implementation and application of functional and function-based programming languages. IFL 2020 will be a venue for researchers to present and discuss new ideas and concepts, work in progress, and publication-ripe results related to the implementation and application of functional languages and function-based programming. ### Registration The symposium will be run via Zoom (zoom.us). If you can use Zoom, then you can participate. Please register for free via Eventbrite on the symposium webpage: https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/events/2020/ifl20/ ### Programme Day 1: Wednesday, 2 September 12:45 Welcome 13:00 Nico Naus and Johan Jeuring: End-user feedback in multi-user workflow systems 13:30 Mart Lubbers, Haye Böhm, Pieter Koopman and Rinus Plasmeijer: Asynchronous Shared Data Sources 14:00 Pieter Koopman, Steffen Michels and Rinus Plasmeijer: Dynamic Editors for Well-Typed Expressions 14:30 Bas Lijnse and Rinus Plasmeijer: Asymmetric Composable Web Editors in iTasks 15:00 Social break 15:30 Sven-Olof Nyström: A subtyping system for Erlang 16:00 Andrew Marmaduke, Christopher Jenkins and Aaron Stump: Generic Zero-Cost Constructor Subtyping 16:30 Joris Burgers, Jurriaan Hage and Alejandro Serrano: Heuristics-based Type Error Diagnosis for Haskell - The case of GADTs and local reasoning 17:00 Social break 17:30 Kavon Farvardin and John Reppy: A New Backend for Standard ML of New Jersey 18:00 Chaitanya Koparkar, Mike Rainey, Michael Vollmer, Milind Kulkarni and Ryan R. Newton: A Compiler Approach Reconciling Parallelism and Dense Representations for Irregular Trees 18:30 Hans-Nikolai Vießmann and Sven-Bodo Scholz: Effective Host-GPU Memory Mangement Through Code Generation 20:00 Virtual Pub Day 2: Thursday, 3 September 10:00 Virtual Breakfast 13:00 Michal Gajda: Less Arbitrary waiting time 13:30 Sólrún Halla Einarsdóttir and Nicholas Smallbone: Template-based Theory Exploration: Discovering Properties of Functional Programs by Testing 14:00 Péter Bereczky, Dániel Horpácsi, Judit Kőszegi, Soma Szeier and Simon Thompson: Validating Formal Semantics by Comparative Testing 14:30 Social break 15:00 Gergo Erdi: An Adventure in Symbolic Execution 15:30 Joshua M. Schappel, Sachin Mahashabde and Marco T. Morazan: Using OO Design Patterns in a Functional Programming Setting 16:00 Filipe Varjão: Functional Programming and Interval Arithmetic with High Accuracy 16:30 Social break 17:00 Laith Sakka, Chaitanya Koparkar, Michael Vollmer, Vidush Singhal, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt, Ryan R. Newton and Milind Kulkarni: General Deforestation Using Fusion, Tupling and Intensive Redundancy Analysis 17:30 Benjamin Mourad and Matteo Cimini: A Declarative Gradualizer with Lang-n-Change 18:00 Maheen Riaz Contractor and Matthew Fluet: Type- and Control-Flow Directed Defunctionalization 19:30 Virtual Pub Day 3: Friday, 4 September 10:00 Virtual Breakfast 13:00 Michal Gajda: Towards a more perfect union type 13:30 Folkert de Vries, Sjaak Smetsers and Sven-Bodo Scholz: Container Unification for Uniqueness Types 14:00 Alejandro Díaz-Caro, Pablo E. Martínez López and Cristian Sottile: Polymorphic System I 14:30 Social break 15:00 Michal Gajda: Schema-driven mutation of datatype with multiple representations 15:30 Alexandre Garcia de Oliveira, Mauro Jaskelioff and Ana Cristina Vieira de Melo: On Structuring Pure Functional Programs with Monoidal Profunctors 16:00 Sara Moreira, Pedro Vasconcelos and Mário Florido: Resource Analysis for Lazy Evaluation with Polynomial Potential 16:30 Social break 17:00 Neil Mitchell, Moritz Kiefer, Pepe Iborra, Luke Lau, Zubin Duggal, Hannes Siebenhandl, Matthew Pickering and Alan Zimmerman: Building an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) on top of a Build System 17:30 Evan Sitt, Xiaotian Su, Beka Grdzelishvili, Zurab Tsinadze, Zongpu Xie, Hossameldin Abdin, Giorgi Botkoveli, Nikola Cenikj, Tringa Sylaj and Viktoria Zsok: Functional Programming Application for Digital Synthesis Implementation 18:00 Jocelyn Serot: HoCL: High level specification of dataflow graphs 19:30 Virtual Pub All times are in British Summer Time (BST), the local time in Canterbury, UK. So please translate these into your own time zone, using a service such as time and date.

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Third Call for Participation: ICFP 2020
by Sam Tobin-Hochstadt 19 Aoû '20

19 Aoû '20

===================================================================== Third Call for Participation ICFP 2020 25th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming and affiliated events August 23 - August 28, 2020 Online http://icfp20.sigplan.org/ Pre-registration ends August 21! ==================================================================== ICFP provides a forum for researchers and developers to hear about the latest work on the design, implementations, principles, and uses of functional programming. The conference covers the entire spectrum of work, from practice to theory, including its peripheries. Watch our new video, and Don't Stop ICFP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fte5wwnwCws Pre-registration ends August 21st! https://icfp20.sigplan.org/attending/Registration This year, the conference will be a virtual event. All activities will take place online. There are training sessions for Clowdr, our new online platform, on August 20 and 21. https://icfp20.sigplan.org/track/icfp-2020-clowdr-training#program The main conference will take place from August 24-26, 2020 during two time bands. The first band will be 9AM-5:30PM New York, and will include both technical and social activities. The second band will repeat (with some variation) the technical program and social activities 12 hours later, 9AM-5:30PM Beijing, the following day. We've written a blog post about how conference mirroring will work for ICFP: https://blog.sigplan.org/2020/08/04/come-to-virtual-icfp/ We’re excited to announce our two invited speakers for 2020: Evan Czaplicki, covering the Elm programming language and hard lessons learned on driving adoption of new programming languages; and Audrey Tang, Haskeller and Taiwan’s Digital Minister, on how software developers can contribute to fighting the pandemic. ICFP has officially accepted 37 exciting papers, and (as a fresh experiment this year) there will also be presentations of 8 papers accepted recently to the Journal of Functional Programming. Co-located symposia and workshops will take place the day before and two days immediately after the main conference. Registration is now open. The early registration deadline is August 8th, 2020. Registration is not free, but is significantly lower than usual. Students who are ACM or SIGPLAN members may register for FREE before the early deadline. https://regmaster.com/2020conf/ICFP20/register.php New this year: Attendees will be able to sign-up for the ICFP Mentoring Program (either to be a mentor, receive mentorship or both). * Overview and affiliated events: http://icfp20.sigplan.org/home * Full Schedule: https://icfp20.sigplan.org/program/program-icfp-2020 * Accepted papers: http://icfp20.sigplan.org/track/icfp-2020-papers#event-overview * JFP Talks: https://icfp20.sigplan.org/track/icfp-2020-jfp-talks#event-overview * Registration is available via: https://regmaster.com/2020conf/ICFP20/register.php Early registration ends 8 August, 2020. * Programming contest: https://icfpcontest2020.github.io/ * Student Research Competition: https://icfp20.sigplan.org/track/icfp-2020-Student-Research-Competition * Tutorials https://icfp20.sigplan.org/track/icfp-2020-tutorials#program * Follow us on Twitter for the latest news: http://twitter.com/icfp_conference This year, there are 10 events co-located with ICFP: * Erlang Workshop (8/23) * Haskell Implementors' Workshop (8/28) * Haskell Symposium (8/27-8/28) * Higher-Order Programming with Effects (8/23) * miniKanren Workshop (8/27) * ML Family Workshop (8/27) * OCaml Workshop (8/28) * Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop (8/23) * Scheme Workshop (8/28) * Type-Driven Development (8/23) As well as tutorials on 8/23, 8/27, and 8/28. ### ICFP Organizers General Chair: Stephanie Weirich (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Program Chair: Adam Chlipala (MIT, USA) Artifact Evaluation Co-Chairs: Brent Yorgey (Hendrix College, USA) Ben Lippmeier (Ghost Locomotion, Australia) Industrial Relations Chair: Alan Jeffrey (Mozilla Research, USA) Programming Contest Organizer: Igor Lukanin (Kontur, Russia) Publicity and Web Chair: Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (Indiana University, USA) Student Research Competition Chair: Youyou Cong (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) Workshops Co-Chair: Jennifer Hackett (University of Nottingham, UK) Leonidas Lampropoulos (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Video Chair: Leif Andersen (Northeastern University, USA) Student Volunteer Co-Chair: Hanneli Tavante (McGill University, Canada) Victor Lanvin (IRIF, Université Paris Diderot, France)

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Need help with re-initializing gambit
by Jörg F. Wittenberger 19 Aoû '20

19 Aoû '20

Hello, BTW: the gambitscheme.org website seems to be down. It does not load here around. I need to start a background/sub process fro gambit running procedure in gambit too. This works fine so far when using open-process to start the same executable with proper parameters. But I need to get around an Android limitation: no way to use open-process or fork+exec with the same binary. (At least not using lambdanative, which I need too. It dies on permissions wrt. Dalvik cache.) It is possible to use fork() instead. But the gambit runtime in the child process is confused. (Note that right after fork() and before returning to gambit all file descriptors except 0-2 are closed in the child process.) Trying to mimic pthread.c from the examples to ___setup(&setup_params) again in the child did not work out either. How could the trick be done? Thanks for any hint Jörg

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Third call for draft papers for IFL 2020 (Implementation and Application of Functional Languages)
by Jurriaan Hage 11 Aoû '20

11 Aoû '20

Hello, Please, find below the third call for draft papers for IFL 2020. Please forward these to anyone you think may be interested. Apologies for any duplicates you may receive. best regards, Jurriaan Hage Publicity Chair of IFL ================================================================================ IFL 2020 32nd Symposium on Implementation and Application of Functional Languages venue: online 2nd - 4th September 2020 https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/events/2020/ifl20/ ================================================================================ ### Scope The goal of the IFL symposia is to bring together researchers actively engaged in the implementation and application of functional and function-based programming languages. IFL 2020 will be a venue for researchers to present and discuss new ideas and concepts, work in progress, and publication-ripe results related to the implementation and application of functional languages and function-based programming. Topics of interest to IFL include, but are not limited to: - language concepts - type systems, type checking, type inferencing - compilation techniques - staged compilation - run-time function specialisation - run-time code generation - partial evaluation - (abstract) interpretation - meta-programming - generic programming - automatic program generation - array processing - concurrent/parallel programming - concurrent/parallel program execution - embedded systems - web applications - (embedded) domain specific languages - security - novel memory management techniques - run-time profiling performance measurements - debugging and tracing - virtual/abstract machine architectures - validation, verification of functional programs - tools and programming techniques - (industrial) applications ### Post-symposium peer-review Following IFL tradition, IFL 2020 will use a post-symposium review process to produce the formal proceedings. Before the symposium authors submit draft papers. These draft papers will be screened by the program chair to make sure that they are within the scope of IFL. The draft papers will be made available to all participants at the symposium. Each draft paper is presented by one of the authors at the symposium. After the symposium every presenter is invited to submit a full paper, incorporating feedback from discussions at the symposium. Work submitted to IFL may not be simultaneously submitted to other venues; submissions must adhere to ACM SIGPLAN's republication policy. The program committee will evaluate these submissions according to their correctness, novelty, originality, relevance, significance, and clarity, and will thereby determine whether the paper is accepted or rejected for the formal proceedings. We plan to publish these proceedings in the International Conference Proceedings Series of the ACM Digital Library, as in previous years. ### Important dates Submission deadline of draft papers: 17 August 2020 Notification of acceptance for presentation: 19 August 2020 Registration deadline: 31 August 2020 IFL Symposium: 2-4 September 2020 Submission of papers for proceedings: 7 December 2020 Notification of acceptance: 3 February 2021 Camera-ready version: 15 March 2021 ### Submission details All contributions must be written in English. Papers must use the ACM two columns conference format, which can be found at: http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template ### Peter Landin Prize The Peter Landin Prize is awarded to the best paper presented at the symposium every year. The honoured article is selected by the program committee based on the submissions received for the formal review process. The prize carries a cash award equivalent to 150 Euros. ### Programme committee Kenichi Asai, Ochanomizu University, Japan Olaf Chitil, University of Kent, United Kingdom (chair) Martin Erwig, Oregon State University,United States Daniel Horpacsi, Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary Zhenjiang Hu, Peking University, China Hans-Wolfgang Loidl, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom Neil Mitchell, Facebook, UK Marco T. Morazan, Seton Hall University, United States Rinus Plasmeijer, Radboud University, Netherlands Colin Runciman, University of York, United Kingdom Mary Sheeran, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Josep Silva, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Jurrien Stutterheim, Standard Chartered, Singapore Josef Svenningsson, Facebook, UK Peter Thiemann, University of Freiburg, Germany Kanae Tsushima, National Institute of Informatics, Japan. Marcos Viera, Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay Janis Voigtlander, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany ### Virtual symposium Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, this year IFL 2020 will be an online event, consisting of paper presentations, discussions and virtual social gatherings. Registered participants can take part from anywhere in the world. ### Acknowledgments This call-for-papers is an adaptation and evolution of content from previous instances of IFL. We are grateful to prior organisers for their work, which is reused here.

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FFI numeric vector lengths
by Lassi Kortela 09 Aoû '20

09 Aoû '20

What causes the following? ;;; Code: (define (disp . xs) (for-each display xs) (newline)) (define-syntax show (syntax-rules () ((_ x) (begin (write 'x) (display " => ") (write x) (newline))))) (define try-as-u8 (c-lambda (scheme-object) size_t "___return(___U8VECTORLENGTH(___arg1));")) (define try-as-u16 (c-lambda (scheme-object) size_t "___return(___U16VECTORLENGTH(___arg1));")) (define try-as-u32 (c-lambda (scheme-object) size_t "___return(___U32VECTORLENGTH(___arg1));")) (define try-as-u64 (c-lambda (scheme-object) size_t "___return(___U64VECTORLENGTH(___arg1));")) (define n 1024) (disp "u8vector of " n " elements") (let ((v (make-u8vector n))) (show (try-as-u8 v)) (show (try-as-u16 v)) (show (try-as-u32 v)) (show (try-as-u64 v))) (newline) (disp "u16vector of " n " elements") (let ((v (make-u16vector n))) (show (try-as-u8 v)) (show (try-as-u16 v)) (show (try-as-u32 v)) (show (try-as-u64 v))) (newline) (disp "u32vector of " n " elements") (let ((v (make-u32vector n))) (show (try-as-u8 v)) (show (try-as-u16 v)) (show (try-as-u32 v)) (show (try-as-u64 v))) ;;; Output: u8vector of 1024 elements (try-as-u8 v) => 4096 (try-as-u16 v) => 2048 (try-as-u32 v) => 1024 (try-as-u64 v) => 512 u16vector of 1024 elements (try-as-u8 v) => 8192 (try-as-u16 v) => 4096 (try-as-u32 v) => 2048 (try-as-u64 v) => 1024 u32vector of 1024 elements (try-as-u8 v) => 16384 (try-as-u16 v) => 8192 (try-as-u32 v) => 4096 (try-as-u64 v) => 2048

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Need help to track down tight loop
by Jörg F. Wittenberger 09 Aoû '20

09 Aoû '20

Hello, on Linux I observe gambit entering a tight loop. Attached the result of "strace -r -p <pid> -o ot0.trace". To me this looks like pattern of roughly 15/80/15/118... repeating the heartbeat operation. In this state the program takes almost 100% CPU and does not respond to anything. Normally it runs on around 40-60 open file descriptors (most from UDP and TCP). The problem arises essentially for sure. Depending on the hardware sooner or later. (On 32bit armel after hours to few days, aarch64 takes sometimes almost week, AMD64 even longer.) Anybody having an idea how to track this down? Thanks so much Jörg

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Call for Tutorial Participation: ICFP 2020
by Sam Tobin-Hochstadt 07 Aoû '20

07 Aoû '20

CALL FOR TUTORIAL PARTICIPATION ICFP 2020 25th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming August 23 - 28, 2020 Virtual https://icfp20.sigplan.org/ Early Registration ends August 8! The 25th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming will be held virtually on August 23-28, 2020. ICFP provides a forum for researchers and developers to hear about the latest work on the design, implementations, principles, and uses of functional programming. This year, ICFP features a wide variety of tutorials on topics related to functional programming, including design, education, tools, and more. Tutorials are available to all ICFP participants with registration. Tutorials occur before or after ICFP, co-located with the associated workshops, on August 23 or August 27-28. The schedule of ICFP Tutorials can be found at: https://icfp20.sigplan.org/track/icfp-2020-tutorials#program ICFP Early Registration ends on August 8th, and is available at: https://icfp20.sigplan.org/attending/Registration

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