Higher-order, Typed, Inferred, Strict: ACM SIGPLAN ML Family Workshop

28 September 2018, Saint Louis (MO), USA
(Colocated with ICFP and the OCaml Users and Developers Workshop)

ML is a family of programming languages that includes Standard ML, OCaml, F#, CakeML, SML#, Manticore, MetaOCaml, JoCaml, Alice ML, Dependent ML, Flow Caml, and many others. All ML languages share several fundamental traits, besides a good deal of syntax. They are higher-order, strict, mostly pure, and typed, with algebraic and other data types. Their type systems are derived from Hindley-Milner. The development of these languages has inspired a significant body of computer science research and influenced the design of many other programming languages, including Haskell, Rust, and Scala.

ML workshops have been held in affiliation with ICFP continuously since 2005. This workshop specifically aims to recognise the entire extended ML family and to provide a forum for presenting and discussing common issues, both practical (compilation techniques, implementations of concurrency and parallelism, programming for the Web) and theoretical (fancy types, module systems, metaprogramming). The scope of the workshop includes all aspects of the design, semantics, theory, application, implementation, and teaching of the members of the ML family. We also encourage presentations from related languages (such as ATS, Eff, F*, Koka, Links, Rust, Scala, Swift, etc.), to exchange experience of further developing ML ideas.

We expect research presentations of original and novel work, but emphasize that rigorous descriptions do not prevent preliminary or surprising work: we hope to encourage exciting (if unpolished) research and deliver a lively workshop atmosphere.

The ML family workshop will be held in close coordination with the OCaml Users and Developers Workshop.

If you have any question about the workshop, submission or participation, feel free to send them by email to the program chair, Gabriel Scherer gabriel.scherer@gmail.com.

Important dates

• Thursday 31st May (any time zone): Abstract submission deadline
• Thursday 28th June: Author notification
• Friday 28th September 2018: ML Family Workshop

Call for presentations

See the complete Call for Presentations (CFP).

Program committee

• Zena Ariola, University of Oregon, US
• Jacques Garrigue, Nagoya University, Japan
• Troels Henriksen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• Andrew Kennedy, Facebook, UK
• Felix Klock, Mozilla, Germany
• Ramana Kumar, DeepMind, UK
• Guido Martinez, CIFASIS-CONICET, Argentina
• Heather Miller, Northeastern University, US and EPFL, Switzerland
• Gabriel Scherer, INRIA Saclay, France
• Filip Sieczkowski, Wrocław University, Poland
• Antonis Stampoulis, Originate Inc., US