Gradual Typing Bibliography
📜 Abstract
This bibliography attempts to cover all of the literature on gradual typing, defined as safe interoperability between typed and untyped portions of a single program. It begins with the original work on gradual typing, which was independently presented by four sets of authors in between September 2006 and January 2007, and then covers the extensive subsequent literature, both theoretical and practical. The latter sections cover related work. First, early work on safe interoperation, such as the work on contracts. Second, work on type systems (broadly defined) designed to work with existing untyped languages, including recent work done in the context of gradual typing. Work on type system design that also considers issues of interoperability with untyped programs appears in the main section of the bibliography.
✨ Summary
The supplied URL is a maintained bibliography, not a conventional research paper: it has no paper-author list, publication venue, publication date, or formal abstract. The page identifies Sam Tobin-Hochstadt’s GitHub account as its maintainer and organizes literature on gradual typing, beginning with four independently developed foundational works from September 2006 through January 2007. (samth.github.io)
Its documented influence is primarily bibliographic rather than technical. Later scholarly work cites the bibliography as a comprehensive survey and reference source for the gradual-typing literature, including historical and theoretical discussions of the field. (paperity.org) The page also serves as a package-supported bibliography for Scribble/Racket documents, which provides a practical mechanism for reusing its references in research writing. (samth.github.io)