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    - idk
 
 
-Under 12 pages?
+Maybe we'll finish under 12 pages.
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+JFP Guidelines
+---
+
+Functional Pearls: elegant, instructive, and fun essays on functional programming.
+
+a full paper of at most 12 pages (6 pages for an Experience Report)
+ in standard SIGPLAN conference format, including figures but excluding bibliography.
+
+Formatting: Submissions must be in PDF format printable in black and white
+ on US Letter sized paper and interpretable by Ghostscript.
+Papers must adhere to the standard SIGPLAN conference format:
+ two columns,
+ nine-point font on a ten-point baseline,
+ with columns 20pc (3.33in) wide and 54pc (9in) tall,
+ with a column gutter of 2pc (0.33in).
+A suitable document template for LaTeX is available at http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/.
+
+
+A Functional Pearl is an elegant essay about something related to functional programming. Examples include, but are not limited to:
+
+- a new and thought-provoking way of looking at an old idea
+- an instructive example of program calculation or proof
+- a nifty presentation of an old or new data structure
+- an interesting application of functional programming techniques
+- a novel use or exposition of functional programming in the classroom
+
+While pearls often demonstrate an idea through the development of a short
+ program, there is no requirement or expectation that they do so.
+Thus, they encompass the notions of theoretical and educational pearls.
+
+Functional Pearls are valued as highly and judged as rigorously as
+ ordinary papers, but using somewhat different criteria.
+In particular, a pearl is not required to report original research, but,
+ it should be concise, instructive, and entertaining.
+Your pearl is likely to be rejected if your readers get bored,
+ if the material gets too complicated,
+ if too much specialized knowledge is needed,
+ or if the writing is inelegant.
+
+A submission you wish to have treated as a pearl must be marked as such
+ on the submission web page, and should contain the words “Functional Pearl”
+ somewhere in its title or subtitle.
+These steps will alert reviewers to use the appropriate evaluation criteria.
+Pearls will be combined with ordinary papers, however,
+ for the purpose of computing the conference’s acceptance rate.