Generic programming is about making programs more adaptable by making them more general. Generic programs often embody non-traditional kinds of polymorphism; ordinary programs are obtained from them by suitably instantiating their parameters. In contrast with normal programs, the parameters of a generic program are often quite rich in structure; for example, they may be other programs, types or type constructors, class hierarchies, or even programming paradigms. Generic programming techniques have always been of interest, both to practitioners and to theoreticians, but only recently have generic programming techniques become a specific focus of research in the functional and object-oriented programming language communities. Generic Programming comprises the edited proceedings of the Working Conference on Generic Programming, which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and held in Dagstuhl, Germany in July 2002. With contributions from leading researchers around the world, this volume captures the state of the art in this important emerging area.

Generic programming attempts to make programming more efficient by making it more general. This book is devoted to a novel form of genericity in programs, based on parameterizing programs by the structure of the data they manipulate. The book presents the following four revised and extended chapters first given as lectures at the Generic Programming Summer School held at the University of Oxford, UK in August 2002: - Generic Haskell: Practice and Theory - Generic Haskell: Applications - Generic Properties of Datatypes - Basic Category Theory for Models of Syntax

This tutorial book presents six carefully revised lectures given at the Spring School on Datatype-Generic Programming, SSDGP 2006. This was held in Nottingham, UK, in April 2006. It was colocated with the Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming (TFP 2006), and the Conference of the Types Project (TYPES 2006). All the lectures have been subjected to thorough internal review by the editors and contributors, supported by independent external reviews.

Thepaperscollectedherearereportsfromthe?eldonthe majorproblemsandemergingsolutionsofgenericprogrammingmethodology. June2000 MehdiJazayeri Rudige ̈ rLoos DavidMusser VI Organization Organization The Generic Programming Seminar was held 27 April–1May 1998 at the ConferenceCenteroftheSchloßDagstuhl,locatedinWadern,Germany(near Saarbruc ̈ ken). Therewerefortynineattendeesfromtencountries. Theformal programofthemeetingincludedthirtysevenlectures,apanelsessiononsoftware librarystandardization,andadiscussionofopenproblemsandprojects. Many informaldiscussionsalsotookplace,oneofthemanybene?tsoftheDagstuhl setting. The traditional Dagstuhl social event was at this meeting a Baroque concertheldinthechapeloftheSchloß. Organizers MehdiJazayeri TechnicalUniversityofVienna R ̈ udigerLoos Tubingen ̈ University DavidMusser RensselaerPolytechnicInstitute AlexanderStepanov SGI Attendees DavidAbrahams MarkoftheUnicorn,Inc.

The Java programming language has been one of the most powerful tools available to computer programmers since its inception in 1995. It has also consistently changed since then, making it a vast and powerful resource for object-oriented programming today. This lucid textbook introduces the student not only to the nuances of object-oriented programming, but also to the many syntaxes and semantics of the modern Java language. Each concept of programming is explained, and then illustrated with small but effective ready-to-run programs. Important points to be noted have been emphasized and hints have been given at the end of each discussion so that programmers are careful to avoid common pitfalls. Finally, a number of practice problems taken from real world scenarios encourage the student to think in terms of problem solving, consolidating the knowledge gained.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Mathematics of Program Construction, MPC 2006, held in Kuressaare, Estonia in July 2006. The book collects 22 revised full papers presented with 3 invited talks. Issues addressed range from algorithmics to support for program construction in programming languages and systems. Topics of special interest are type systems, program analysis and transformation, programming language semantics, program logics.

Meta-Programming and Model-Driven Meta-Program Development: Principles, Processes and Techniques presents an overall analysis of meta-programming, focusing on insights of meta-programming techniques, heterogeneous meta-program development processes in the context of model-driven, feature-based and transformative approaches. The fundamental concepts of meta-programming are still not thoroughly understood, in this well organized book divided into three parts the authors help to address this. Chapters include: Taxonomy of fundamental concepts of meta-programming; Concept of structural heterogeneous meta-programming based on the original meta-language; Model-driven concept and feature-based modeling to the development process of meta-programs; Equivalent meta-program transformations and metrics to evaluate complexity of feature-based models and meta-programs; Variety of academic research case studies within different application domains to experimentally verify the soundness of the investigated approaches. Both authors are professors at Kaunas University of Technology with 15 years research and teaching experience in the field. Meta-Programming and Model-Driven Meta-Program Development: Principles, Processes and Techniques is aimed at post-graduates in computer science and software engineering and researchers and program system developers wishing to extend their knowledge in this rapidly evolving sector of science and technology.

This tutorial book presents seven carefully revised lectures given at the 6th International School on Functional Programming, AFP 2008, in Heijen, The Netherlands in May 2008. The book presents the following seven, carefully cross-reviewed chapters, written by leading authorities in the field: Self-adjusting: Computation with Delta ML, spider spinning for dummies, from reduction-based to reduction-free normalization, libraries for generic programming in Haskell, dependently typed programming in agda, parallel and concurrent programming in Haskell and an iTask case study: a conference management system.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies, ICSOFT 2012, held in Rome, Italy, in July 2012. The 14 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 127 submissions. The papers focus on the following research topics and applications: programming issues, theoretical aspects of software engineering, management information systems, distributed systems, ubiquity, data interoperability, context understanding.

This book originates from the Third Summer School on Advanced Functional Programming, held in Barga, Portugal, in September 1998. The lectures presented are targeted at individual students and programming professionals as well as at small study groups and lecturers who wish to become acquainted with recent work in the rapidly developing area of functional programming. The book presents the following seven, carefully cross-reviewed chapters, written by leading authorities in the field: Sorting Morphisms; Generic Programming: An Introduction; Generic Program Transformation; Designing and Implementing Combinator Languages; Using MetaML: A Staged Programming Language; Cayenne: A Language with Dependent Types; Haskell as an Automation Controller.