<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Commercial Users of Functional Programming Workshop (CUFP) 2009<br><br> Functional Programming As a Means, Not an End<br><br> Call for Participation<br><br> Sponsored by SIGPLAN<br> Co-located with ICFP 2009<br> _________________________________________________________<br><br> 4 September 2009<br> Edinburgh, Scotland<br><br> Registration is through<br> <a href="http://www.regmaster.com/conf/icfp2009.html">http://www.regmaster.com/conf/icfp2009.html</a><br> _________________________________________________________<br><br> Functional languages have been under academic development <br> for over 25 years, and remain fertile ground for programming<br> language research. Recently, however, developers in industrial, <br> governmental, and open source projects have begun to use <br> functional programming successfully in practical applications. <br> In these settings, functional programming has often provided <br> dramatic leverage, including whole new ways of thinking about <br> the original problem.<br><br> The goal of the CUFP workshop is to act as a voice for these<br> users of functional programming. The workshop supports the<br> increasing viability of functional programming in the<br> commercial, governmental, and open-source space by providing a<br> forum for professionals to share their experiences and ideas,<br> whether those ideas are related to business, management, or<br> engineering. The workshop is also designed to enable the<br> formation and reinforcement of relationships that further<br> the commercial use of functional programming. Providing user<br> feedback to language designers and implementors is not a<br> primary goal of the workshop, though it will be welcome if it<br> occurs.<br><br>Program<br><br> CUFP 2009 will last a full day and feature a discussion<br> session and the following presentations:<br><br> Bryan O'Sullivan<br> Keynote: Real world Haskell<br><br> Lee Momtahan (EDF Trading)<br> Implementing a Domain-Specific Language for Derivative<br> Pricing with Scala<br><br> Bhasker Kode (hover.in)<br> Erlang at hover.in<br><br> Jefferson Heard, (Renaissance Computing Institute)<br> Teleconferencing over High-res Maps with Haskell<br><br> Alex Peake (TFC) and Adam Granicz (Intellifactory)<br> The First Substantial Line of Business Application in F#<br><br> Christopher Piro and Eugene Letuchy (Facebook)<br> Functional Programming at Facebook<br><br> Fermin Reig (Morgan Stanly)<br> Computing with Time Series Data in Finance<br><br> Warren Harris (Metaweb)<br> Functional Programming at Freebase<br><br> Mark Wong-VanHaren (Glyde)<br> Clear & Simple: Composing a Marketplace<br><br> Duncan Coutts (Well-Typed)<br> Birth of the Industrial Haskell Group<br><br> There will be no published proceedings, as the meeting is<br> intended to be more a discussion forum than a technical<br> interchange.<br><br> See <a href="http://cufp.galois.com/">http://cufp.galois.com</a> for more information, including<br> presentation abstracts and the most recent schedule<br> information.<br><br> This will be the sixth CUFP; see CUFP 2004 CUFP 2005, CUFP<br> 2006, CUFP 2007 and CUFP 2008 for information about the<br> earlier meetings, including reports from attendees and video<br> of the most recent talks.<br></body></html>