Slideshow Functional Presentations Robert Bruce Findler University of Chicago robby 2cs uchicago edu Abstract Among slide presentation systems the dominant application offers essentially no abstraction capability Slideshow an extension of PLT Scheme represents our effort over the last several years to build an abstraction friendly slide system We show how functional programming is well suited to the task of slide creation we re port on the programming abstractions
Under consideration for publication in J Functional Programming 1 Slideshow Functional Presentations ROBERT BRUCE FINDLER University of Chicago e mail robby cs uchicago edu MATTHEW FLATT University of Utah e mail mElatt cs utah edu Abstract Among slide presentation systems the dominant application offers essentially no abstraction capa bility Slideshow an extension of PLT Scheme represents our effort over the last several years to build an abstraction fr