Web Directory

» Afnix Programming Language
   A multi-threaded functional programming language with dynamic symbol bindings which provides a state of art runtime engine for 32- and 64-bit platform and a rich set of platform independent libraries, compatible with C++ runtime operations, automatic prot
   http://www.afnix.org/

» Aldor
   Functional language in which types are first class values. Normal functions returning types reproduce the features of template classes of other languages. Links to many projects around the world based on Aldor.
   http://www.aldor.org/

» Arbol
   Functional language developed mainly for Genetic Programming experiments. Inspired by ideas of other small, esoteric languages (Unlambda, Lazy K, Joy, Iota, Zot, ...), and pure functional Haskell.
   http://imonad.com/arbol/

» BitC Language Specification
   BitC is a systems programming language that combines the low level nature of C with the semantic rigor of Scheme or ML.
   http://www.bitc-lang.org/docs/bitc/spec.html

» CDuce
   An XML centric programming language with higher order, semantic subtyping, pattern matching and overloading, and open source implementation.
   http://www.cduce.org/

» Cat
   Functional stack-based language inspired by Joy; main differences: Cat has static typing with type inferencing (like ML, Haskell), and term rewriting macro language extension language, MetaCat. Open-source, public domain.
   http://www.cat-language.com/

» Charity
   Functional, categorical language, by University of Calgary, Canada. Innovative organization: based on theory of strong categorical datatypes divided into 2 subclasses: inductive (built up by constructors in the familiar way), and coinductive (broken down
   http://pll.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/charity1/www/home.html

» Clojure
   A functional programming language that targets the Java Virtual Machine. It shares Lisp's code-as-data philosophy and powerful macro system, and enables easy concurrency through persistent data structures.
   http://clojure.org/

» Eden
   Parallel functional language to program reactive systems and parallel algorithms using distributed memory. Extends Haskell, but overrules lazy evaluation whenever needed to support parallelism.
   http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~eden/

» FAQ for comp.lang.functional
   Offers documentation as a frequently asked questions list. Also provides links to general topic, technical and other resources.
   http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh//faq.html

» FISh
   A novel functional language that claims to be faster than C in some cases.
   http://linus.socs.uts.edu.au/~cbj/FISh/

» Functional Programming
   Claus Reinke's , well organized bookmarks on FP.
   http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/cr3/FP/

» Functional Programming in the Real World
   Lists functional programs written primarily to perform to real-world tasks. Has pure programs (no side effects) and impure (some use of side effects). Languages: Caml, Clean, Erlang, Haskell, Miranda, Scheme, Standard ML.
   http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/realworld/

» Hope
   A small functional programming language, with polymorphic typing, algebraic types, pattern matching and higher-order functions.
   http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~ross/Hope/

» ICFP 2002
   The 2002 International Conference on Functional Programming covers the entire spectrum of functional programming, from practice to theory, and from established functional programming languages (Scheme, ML, Haskell) to novel language designs and to the fun
   http://icfp2002.cs.brown.edu/

» Joy
   Pure functional language based on function composition rather than application; concatenative language, very like Forth, inputs and outputs stacks, but with higher-level data types and sound mathematical foundation. [Open Source, BSD]
   http://www.latrobe.edu.au/philosophy/phimvt/joy.html

» Lemon
   Functional language with inductive and coinductive types. Based on simply-typed lambda calculus augmented with sums, products, and mu and nu constructors for least (inductive) and greatest (coinductive) solutions to recursive type equations.
   http://people.cis.ksu.edu/~bhoward/lemon.html

» Links: Linking Theory to Practice for the Web
   Functional language to solve impedance mismatch problem by using one language for all 3 tiers of web programming: front-end browser, middle-tier server, back-end database; people, mail lists, papers, talks, wiki, downloads.
   http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/links/

» Mondrian
   A simple functional scripting language for Internet applications.
   http://kahu.zoot.net.nz/

» NESL: A Parallel Programming Language
   Parallel functional language developed at Carnegie Mellon, SCandAL project. Most important new ideas: nested data parallelism, language based performance model.
   http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~scandal/nesl.html

» OPAL Project
   Researches programming environment where advanced language concepts and formal development methods are used to make production-quality software. Strongly typed, higher-order, strict, pure FL; so can be classed with ML, Haskell, and other modern FLs. But a
   http://uebb.cs.tu-berlin.de/~opal/

» PLAN: A Packet Language for Active Networks
   Resource-bounded functional language that uses a form of remote procedure call to realize active networking. Part of the SwitchWare Project. Descriptions, documents, downloads, contacts, links.
   http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/PLAN/

» Q Equational Programming Language
   An extensible functional programming language based on the term rewriting calculus.
   http://q-lang.sourceforge.net/

» Readscheme.org - Resources for Functional Programming
   A variety of research resources on functional programming languages, implementation, and applications of functional programming languages.
   http://readscheme.org/

» Rita Loogen
   Member of Eden team. Articles.
   http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~loogen/

» Scala Programming Language
   General purpose programming language designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way.
   http://www.scala-lang.org/

» The Agda Wiki
   Home page for the Agda 2, a dependently typed functional programming language.
   http://wiki.portal.chalmers.se/agda/

» The Pizza Compiler
   Java extension with functional features: generics (parametric polymorphism), function pointers (first-class (higher-order) functions), class cases and pattern matching (algebraic (data)types).
   http://pizzacompiler.sourceforge.net/

» The Rise of Functional Languages
   Brief article, explains what they are, and how and why their popularity is growing; with links and reader comments. Linux Journal.
   http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000217/

» The Unlambda Programming Language
   A functional language designed for obscurity
   http://www.madore.org/~david/programs/unlambda/

» Wadler: Monads
   Information on monads and functional programming
   http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/topics/monads.html

» What the Hell are Monads?
   Basic introduction to monads, monadic programming, and I/O.
   http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~antoy/Courses/TPFLP/lectures/MONADS/Noel/research/monads.html

» Wikipedia: Functional Programming
   Encyclopdia article including a definition, comparison, history, and examples.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming