Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages

This book, complete with online files and updates, covers a hugely important area of study in computing. It constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages, PADL 2008, held in San Francisco, CA, USA, in January 2008. The 20 revised full papers along with the abstract of 1 invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 44 submissions. The papers address all current aspects of declarative programming.

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Industrial Functional Programming.- Certified Development Tools Implementation in Objective Caml.- Automatic Coding Rule Conformance Checking Using Logic Programming.- Comprehension and Dependency Analysis of Aspect-Oriented Programs through Declarative Reasoning.- Efficient Reasoning for Nogoods in Constraint Solvers with BDDs.- Flexible, Rule-Based Constraint Model Linearisation.- The Role of Abduction in Declarative Authorization Policies.- Unification of Arrays in Spreadsheets with Logic Programming.- Specialising Simulator Generators for High-Performance Monte-Carlo Methods.- A Generic Programming Toolkit for PADS/ML: First-Class Upgrades for Third-Party Developers.- Matchete: Paths through the Pattern Matching Jungle.- Parser Combinators for Ambiguous Left-Recursive Grammars.- DCGs + Memoing = Packrat Parsing but Is It Worth It?.- An Improved Continuation Call-Based Implementation of Tabling.- Scheduling Light-Weight Parallelism in ArTCoP.- Towards a High-Level Implementation of Execution Primitives for Unrestricted, Independent And-Parallelism.- Hierarchical Master-Worker Skeletons.- High-Level Multi-threading Programming in Logtalk.- Switched-On Yampa.- Model-Based Testing of Thin-Client Web Applications and Navigation Input.- High-Level Database Programming in Curry.