MLTon paper

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

Great!  

| (at least part of the time) on other projects, we're still 
| unsure about a specific date by which we could have the paper 
| to you, but we hope to start writing soon.  

Perhaps we can ping you in three months if we havn't heard
anything?  Nasreen, can you put this in your diary, please?

| (especially translating to SSA), etc. Essentially, our 
| thinking is to focus less on foundations and benchmarks and 
| more on design tradeoffs and decisions within this context.  
| We hope that would be ok with you.

Yes indeed -- I think that's the opportunity that a journal context
offers.   Though of course it's better if there's some empirical support
for design tradeoffs!

Simon

| -----Original Message-----
| From: Jagannathan, Suresh 
| [mailto:Suresh.Jagannathan@storagenetworks.com] 
| Sent: 08 February 2002 20:27
| To: Simon Peyton-Jones; 'MLton@sourcelight.com'
| Cc: wadler@avaya.com
| Subject: RE: MLTon paper
| 
| 
| 
| Dear Simon:
| 
| Thanks very much for you offer to have us submit a paper on 
| MLton to JFP. We're very excited by the possibility.  Since 
| all of us are distributed and working 
| (at least part of the time) on other projects, we're still 
| unsure about a specific date by which we could have the paper 
| to you, but we hope to start writing soon.  We believe the 
| paper that would be of most interest to your readers would be 
| one that discussed ramifications of whole-program 
| compilation, the implications of using simple typed ILs 
| (especially translating to SSA), etc. Essentially, our 
| thinking is to focus less on foundations and benchmarks and 
| more on design tradeoffs and decisions within this context.  
| We hope that would be ok with you.
| 
| Thanks again,
| 
| Henry, Matthew, Suresh, and Steve
| 
| 
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Simon Peyton-Jones [mailto:simonpj@microsoft.com]
| Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 10:12 AM
| To: sweeks@intertrust.com; fluet@cs.cornell.edu; 
| sjagannathan@storagenetworks.com; henry@sourcelight.com
| Cc: Simon Peyton-Jones; wadler@avaya.com
| Subject: MLTon paper
| 
| 
| Stephen, Suresh, Matthew, Henry,
| 
| When Stephen and I met at ICFP01, I believe that I invited 
| you to write a paper about MLton for the Journal of 
| Functional Programming. You have done all this excellent 
| implementation stuff; now's the time to infect people's 
| brains, as well as their hard disks, with your ideas!
| 
| Seriously, I was thinking that you probably now have enough 
| experience and perspective for the main design choices that
| you made in MLton that a paper surveying the compiler as a 
| whole would be very valuable: 
| its structure and major design choices, the things you think 
| work really well and the things you wish you'd done 
| differently, and so on.
| 
| Conferences tend to encourage tightly-focussed papers, but 
| journals can take papers with a wider focus and more general lessons.
| 
| Would you be interested?  
| 
| Simon
|