Simon Marlow

Simon Marlow is a British computer programmer, author, and co-developer of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC).[1] He and Simon Peyton Jones won the SIGPLAN Programming Languages Software Award in 2011[2] for their work on GHC. Marlow's book Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell was published in August 2013.

Formerly of Microsoft Research,[3] Marlow has worked at Facebook since March 2013. The "noted Haskell guru"[4] is part of the team behind Facebook's open source Haxl project,[5] a Haskell library that simplifies access to remote data.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Glasgow Haskell Compiler".
  2. ↑ "SIGPLAN".
  3. ↑ Marlow, Simon. "[Haskell] Leaving Microsoft". Retrieved 2015-09-24.
  4. ↑ "Facebook’s New Spam-Killer Hints at the Future of Coding". Retrieved 2015-09-24.
  5. ↑ "Fighting spam with Haskell". Facebook Code. Retrieved 2015-09-24.
  6. ↑ "facebook/Haxl". GitHub. Retrieved 2015-09-24.
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