Elm: a functional reactive programming language that compiles to JavaScript

Re:Elm: a functional reactive programming language that comp... by mahmud on Tuesday December 06, 2011 @10:22PM (#3322276)

The original paper that introduced Functional Reactive Programming was the Fran paper:

http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/dsl97...

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Re:Elm: a functional reactive programming language that comp... by conal on Wednesday December 07, 2011 @11:14PM (#3327624)

For an even earlier FRP paper, see http://conal.net/papers/ActiveVRML/, about the first implementation of what came to be called "FRP". Fran was my reimplementation of that system after I found Haskell.

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Re:Elm: a functional reactive programming language that comp... by wheatBread on Wednesday December 07, 2011 @12:01AM (#3322525)

For those of you not familiar with FRP, it's a really great read! Hudak and Elliott really present their ideas clearly and elegantly.

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