Declarative Systems Architecture: A Quantitative Approach (AQUA)
- Simon Peyton Jones
This report summarises the achievements of AQUA project which ran from February 1993 to 1996.
The goal of the project was “to begin the quantitative feedback process in the field of declarative systems architecture”. Specifically, the project concerned “compilers and runtime resource management for non-strict functional languages such as Haskell, on both sequential and parallel platforms”.
A secondary, but important, goal articulated in the proposal was to contribute to the maturing of functional programming languages, helping to move them from the laboratory and into the hands of users.