Google Scholar tells me that “Why Functional Programming Matters” was published in 1989 and has been cited over 1000 times. Here’s a quote. Recall that a complete functional program is just a function from its input to its output. If
Wadler’s influential “monads” paper for Haskell. It seems like a classic case of making something simple sound profound and mysterious. And companion paper by Hughes on “why functional programming matters” . See also some comments above. McCarthy’s original LISP paper. Just
The Chang-Maxemchuk algorithm (US Patent 4,725,834 ) solves atomic broadcast (and in-order broadcast) problems for distributed networks in a far simpler and more efficient way than some popular alternatives. In fact, the obscurity of this method is hard to understand given the
Financial trading venues and trading systems operate so quickly and rely on clocks so deeply that events like the one noted in this FINRA report are more common than many understand The findings stated that the firm transmitted to OATS
Regarding ease-of-use, it’s often struck me when reviewing data systems papers that the evaluation sections are full of performance and correctness criteria, but only rarely is there any discussion of how well a system helps its target users achieve their
All of the distributed consensus algorithms I have been reviewing recently (Paxos, Raft, Zab, Chang Maxemchuck, Viewstamped, … ) are based on a number of assumptions about the network environment, including the assumption that messages may be lost but are
The first time I saw this method was when I went to work for Parallel Computer Systems, , later called Auragen, in the famous tech startup center of Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. I commuted there from the East Village. (True story: I
Distributed consensus involves organizing a collection of independent agents – processes or network sites – to agree on some value or sequence of values. Many distributed consensus methods depend on a leader-follower scheme in which the leader is an agent
Replaced by Paxos Demystified. Lamport’s “Paxos Made Simple” paper is notoriously hard to understand but at least part of the difficulty is that the algorithm changes radically in the middle of the presentation. The first part of the paper presents a
When people think of mathematical models of state for programs and other computer systems, it’s natural and conventional to consider state as a map from symbolic names of state variable to values. This is an error for a number