Matthew Flatt is an American computer scientist and professor at the

University of Utah School of Computing The School of Computing is a school within the College of Engineering at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah. School of Computing The school offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in computer science. The school has major research ...

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. He is also a member of the core development team for the

Racket programming language Racket is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm programming language and a multi-platform distribution that includes the Racket language, compiler, large standard library, IDE, development tools, and a set of additional languages including Typed R ...

. Flatt received his PhD at

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in 1999, under the direction of

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. His dissertation is on the mechanics of first-class modules and

mixin In object-oriented programming languages, a mixin (or mix-in) is a class that contains methods for use by other classes without having to be the parent class of those other classes. How those other classes gain access to the mixin's methods depen ...

classes. His work triggered research in the ML community on mutually recursive modules and in the

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community on mixins and traits. Flatt served as one of four editors of the Revised^6 Report on the

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programming language. The report is influenced by his design of Racket, especially the module system, the exception system, the record system, the macro system, and library links.

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Flatt's homepage at UtahGoogle Scholar profile
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