Tag handling accounts for a substantial amount of execution cost in latently typed languages such as Common LISP and Scheme, especially on architectures that provide no special ha...
Workflow systems are automated systems in which tasks are coordinated by assigning them to either humans or computers. Contemporary workflow systems are static and not very flex...
Rinus Plasmeijer, Peter Achten, Pieter W. M. Koopm...
Nested datatypes are families of datatypes that are indexed over all types and where the datatype constructors relate different members of the family. This may be used to represent...
As a value flows across the boundary between interoperating languages, it must be checked and converted to fit the types and representations of the target language. For simple f...
Kathryn E. Gray, Robert Bruce Findler, Matthew Fla...
In this paper we introduce the iTask system: a set of combinators to specify work flows in a pure functional language at a very high level of abstraction. Work flow systems are au...
Rinus Plasmeijer, Peter Achten, Pieter W. M. Koopm...