Robby Findler (Northwestern University, USA), gives the first talk in the first panel, Domain-Specific Languages, on the 3rd day of the ICFP conference.
Herbarium Racketensis: A Stroll through the Woods (Functional Pearl)
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Co-written by Vincent St-Amour, Daniel Feltey, Spencer P. Florence, Shu-Hung You, Northwestern University.
Domain-specific languages are the ultimate abstraction, dixit Paul Hudak. But what abstraction should we use to build such ultimate abstractions? What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander: a language, of course!
Racket is the ultimate abstraction-abstraction, a platform for quickly and easily building new ultimate abstractions. This pearl demonstrates Racket's power by taking a leisurely walk through the implementation of a DSL for Lindenmayer systems, the computational model par excellence of theoretical botany.
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ICFP 2017 is the 22nd ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming.
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. This year, there are keynotes from Chris Martens and John Launchbury; unfortunately, Rich Hickey was unable to attend as originally...
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