Earlier studies have introduced a list of high-level evaluation criteria to assess how well a language supports generic programming. Since each language that meets all criteria is...
172 views126 votes15 years 1 months ago APLAS 2010»
Abstract. Through foreign function interfaces (FFIs), software components in different programming languages interact with each other in the same address space. Recent years have w...
121 views125 votes14 years 10 months ago CACM 2010»
We present Goldilocks, a Java runtime that monitors program executions and throws a DataRaceException when a data race is about to occur. This prevents racy accesses from taking p...
We describe and compare the programming languages C, MATLAB and Python as teaching languages for engineering students. We distinguish between two distinct phases in the process of ...
190 views130 votes15 years 7 months ago PLDI 2009»
Program errors are a source of information leaks. Tracking these leaks is hard because error propagation breaks out of program structure. Programming languages often feature excep...
"This book serves as an introduction to the C++ language. It teaches how to
program in C++ and how to properly use its features. It does not attempt to teach
object-oriented...