Commercial Users of Functional Programming (CUFP)
1-2 October 2010
Co-located with ICFP 2010

Functional Programming As a Means, Not an End

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Functional programming languages have been a hot topic of academic research for over 35 years, and are rapidly being adopted in diverse real-world settings ranging from from tech start-ups to financial and biomedical firms. A vigorous community of practically-minding functional programmers has come into existence, using them as tools to build reliable and fast systems.

CUFP is designed to serve this community. The aim is for CUFP to be a place where people can see how others are using functional programming to solve real world problems; where practitioners meet and collaborate; where language designers and users can share ideas about the future of their favourite language; and where one can learn practical techniques and approaches for putting functional programming to work.

Giving a CUFP Talk

If you have experience using functional languages in a practical setting, we invite you to submit a proposal to give a talk at the workshop, read the Call For Presentations.

Program Plans

CUFP 2010 will last for two days, and will consist of three components: CUFP Talks, CUFP Tutorials and CUFP BOFs.

CUFP Talks will consist of a series of talks given by practitioners in the field. The talks will be split between shorter experience reports, describing ways in which functional programming has been used, either successfully or unsuccessfully, in the real world; and longer technical talks, which will detail techniques and approaches for applying functional programming in practical settings.

CUFP Tutorials will be made up of in-depth, hands-on sessions for learning particular technologies and techniques in functional programming. These will range from language introductions for beginners to more advanced and focused sessions on particular language features, techniques or tool kits.

CUFP BOFs will consist of so-called "birds-of-a-feather" sessions, which will create spaces for informal conversations on a variety of topics. Among other things, this will be a good venue for language designers and practitioners to exchange ideas about the future of functional programming. As is typical with BOFs, topics will be chosen beforehand based on a public process for gathering proposals, organized via our website and a mailing list.

There will be no published proceedings, as the meeting is intended to be more a discussion forum than a technical interchange.

Program Committee

  • Francesco Cesarini (Erlang Solutions, co-chair: Year 2) francesco _at_ erlang-solutions.com
  • Tim Dysinger (Sonian Networks)
  • Alain Frisch (LexiFi)
  • Nick Gerakines (Chegg)
  • Adam Granicz (Intellifactory)
  • Amanda Laucher (Unaffiliated)
  • Romain Lenglet (Google Japan)
  • Yaron Minsky (Jane Street Capital, co-chair: Year 1) yminsky _at_ janestcapital.com
  • Mary Sheeran (Chalmers)
  • Don Stewart (Galois)
  • Dean Wampler (DRW)

22 February 2010