Ryan Culpepper

I am currently a post-doc at the University of Utah, School of Computing.

Before that I was a graduate student at the College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University. My advisor was Matthias Felleisen.

1 Publications

• Sam Tobin-Hochstadt, Vincent St-Amour, Ryan Culpepper, Matthew Flatt, and Matthias Felleisen. “Languages as Libraries” PLDI 2011.

• Ryan Culpepper and Matthias Felleisen. “Fortifying Macros” ICFP 2010.

• Ryan Culpepper. Refining Syntactic Sugar: Tools for Supporting Macro Development Dissertation. College of Computer Science, Northeastern University. April 2010.

• Eric Allen, Ryan Culpepper, Janus Dam Nielsen, Jon Rafkind, and Sukyoung Ryu. “Growing a Syntax” FOOL 2009.

• Ryan Culpepper and Matthias Felleisen. “Debugging Hygienic Macros” Science of Computer Programming, July 2010.

• Ryan Culpepper and Matthias Felleisen. “Debugging Macros” GPCE 2007.

• Ryan Culpepper, Sam Tobin-Hochstadt, and Matthew Flatt. “Advanced Macrology and the Implementation of Typed Scheme” Scheme Workshop 2007.

• Ryan Culpepper, Scott Owens, and Matthew Flatt. “Syntactic Abstraction in Component Interfaces” GPCE 2005.

• Ryan Culpepper and Matthias Felleisen. “Taming Macros” GPCE 2004.

2 Talks

• Designing macros with syntax-parse, RacketCon 2011. (slides) (video coming soon)

• Database access and making low-level libraries Rackety, RacketCon 2011. (slides) (video coming soon)

3 Software

• syntax-parse, a domain-specific language for writing macros and specifying syntax. Bundled with Racket.

• The Macro Stepper, a graphical stepping debugger for Racket’s hygienic macro expansion process. Bundled with Racket.

• RackUnit, a testing framework for Racket. With Noel Welsh. Bundled with Racket.

• db, a library for connecting to PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite database, as well as others via ODBC. Available via PLaneT.

4 Contact

Email: ryan@cs.utah.edu, ryanc@racket-lang.org