Fourteen papers from the 1999 Stirling Workshop highlight major research goals and engineering concerns in the field. These include: making profitable use of modern parallel architectures, designing and defining modern type systems, performance comparisons between different functional languages, and applying functional programming languages. Specific chapters discuss cloning in a fuzzy language, transformation and optimization, genetic algorithms, GpH and Eden, parallel heuristics search in Haskell, operational semantics, graph-reduction semantics, CAMLFLOW, quilting, and type inference for MLj. Author index only. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
