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09:30 Keynote: Linear Haskell: Practical Linearity in a Higher-Order Polymorphic Language Simon Peyton Jones All levels ghc functional-programming linear-type-systems keynote haskellx haskell Keynote: Linear Haskell: Practical Linearity in a Higher-Order Polymorphic Language

Simon Peyton Jones Day 1, 11 Oct starts 09:30 Watch now! Recently, in a collaboration with Tweag I/O, we came up with a new approach to linearity that really does seem to have a good power-to-weight ratio, and that fits smoothly with the existing language. The key ideas is to attach linearity to function arrows, rather than bifurcating types into linear and non-linear versions (the dominant approach). In this talk I'll explain and motivate the key ideas, from the point of view of a programmer rather than a type theorist, focusing especially on update-in-place, and on I/O protocols. Arnaud Spiwack gave a talk on the same subject last year, and is now busy implementing the ideas in GHC. I hope you will find our complementary perspectives illuminating, and that you'll come away with a clearer picture of the linearity landscape and how we might think about it. ghc functional-programming linear-type-systems keynote haskellx haskell About the speaker... Simon Peyton Jones After two years in industry, he spent seven years as a lecturer at University College London, and nine years as a professor at Glasgow University before moving to Microsoft Research (Cambridge) in 1998. His main research interest is in functional programming languages, their implementation, and their application. He has led a succession of research projects focused around the design and implementation of production-quality functional-language systems for both uniprocessors and parallel machines. More generally, he is interested in language design, rich type systems, software component architectures, compiler technology, code generation, runtime systems, virtual machines, and garbage collection. He is particularly motivated by direct use of principled theory to practical language design and implementation -- that's one reason he loves functional programming so much. ×