This is the proceedings of the seventh annual workshop held by the Glasgow Functional Programming Group. The purpose of the workshop is to provide a focus for new research, to foster research contacts with other functional language researchers, and to provide a platform for research students to develop their presentation skills. As in previous years, we spent three days closeted together in a pleasant seaside town, isolated from normal work commitments. We were joined by colleagues from other universities (both UK and abroad) and from industry. Workshop participants presented a short talk about their current research work, and produced a paper which appeared in a draft proceedings. These papers were then reviewed and revised in the light of discussions at the workshop and the referees' comments. A selection of those revised papers (the majority of those presented at the workshop) appears here in the published proceedings. The papers themselves cover a wide span, from theoretical work on algebras and bisimilarity to experience with a real-world medical applica tion. Unsurprisingly, given Glasgow's track record, there is a strong emphasis on compilation techniques and optimisations, and there are also several papers on concurrency and parallelism.

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The Glasgow Functional Programming Group is the largest research centre of its kind in the UK, and its work has attained international recognition. The group has organised annual workshops since 1988, aimed at providing a focus for new research and encouraging contact with other functional language researchers in both industry and academia. This volume contains papers presented at the seventh workshop, which was held in Ayr, Scotland, from 12-14 September 1994. The papers include new research results, ranging from theoretical work in bisimilarity and computer algebra to practical work on a cervical smear scanning system written in a purely functional language. A significant number of papers also cover concurrency, parallelism, and compilation techniques for functional languages.

Inhalt
Expression Refinement: Deriving Bresenham's Algorithm.- Dynamic Algebra for Calculating Algorithms.- On the Expressive Power of Constructor Classes.- Programming Reactive Systems in Haskell.- Techniques for Simplifying the Visualization of Graph Reduction.- A Tutorial on Co-Induction and Functional Programming.- Unboxing Using Specialisation.- Improving Granularity in Parallel Functional Programs: A Graphical Winnowing System for Haskell.- Fold-Unfold Transformations on State Monadic Interpreters.- Functional Binomial Queues.- Mechanized Reasoning About Functional Programs.- A Case Study in Parallel Program Derivation: The Heat Equation Algorithm.- Compilation by Transformation in the Glasgow Haskell Compiler.- Experience of Developing a Cervical Cytology Scanning System Using Gofer and Haskell.- Binding-Time Improvement and Fold-Unfold Transformation.- Data Dependent Concurrency Control.- Type-Checked Message-Passing Between Functional Processes.- Author Index.