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Oh Lord, Please Don't Let Contracts Be Misunderstood (Functional Pearl)
Contracts feel misunderstood, especially those with a higher-order soul. While software engineers appreciate contracts as tools for articulating the interface between components, functional programmers desperately search for their types and meaning, completely forgetting about their pragmatics.
This gem presents a novel analysis of contract systems. Applied to the higher-order kind, this analysis reveals their large and clearly unappreciated software engineering potential. Three sample applications illustrate where this kind of exploration may lead.
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15:15 25mTalk | Fully Abstract Compilation via Universal Embedding Research Papers Max S. New Northeastern University, William J. Bowman Northeastern University, Amal Ahmed Northeastern University DOI | ||
15:40 25mTalk | Oh Lord, Please Don't Let Contracts Be Misunderstood (Functional Pearl) Research Papers Christos Dimoulas Harvard University, Max S. New Northeastern University, Robert Bruce Findler Northwestern University, Matthias Felleisen Northeastern University DOI | ||
16:05 25mTalk | A Type Theory for Incremental Computational Complexity with Control Flow Changes Research Papers Ezgi Çiçek MPI-SWS, Germany, Zoe Paraskevopoulou Princeton University, USA, Deepak Garg MPI-SWS, Germany DOI | ||