144 views119 votes15 years 6 months ago HOPL 1993»
This paper outlines the history of the C++ programming language. The emphasis is on the ideas, constraints, and people that shaped the language, rather than the minutiae of langua...
"This book is primarily intended to be a text for the programming component in an introductory two semester computer science course (some materials are a little advanced and m...
424 views144 votes15 years 8 months ago INAP 2005»
This article introduces the turtle++ library which combines constraint-based and imperative paradigms and enables in this way constraint imperative programming (CIP) with c++. Inte...
The personal computer hardware marketplace has grown rapidly in recent years. Many software projects, as a cost-cutting measure, are buying “off-the-self” items to meet their ...
252 views129 votes13 years 10 months ago POPL 2012»
This paper describes an executable formal semantics of C. Being executable, the semantics has been thoroughly tested against the GCC torture test suite and successfully passes 99....
We propose a new instruction, branch-on-random, that is like a standard conditional branch, except rather than specifying the condition on which the branch should be taken, it spe...
ust control problems can be formulated in abstract form as convex feasibility programs, where one seeks a solution x that satisfies a set of inequalities of the form F . = {f (x,...
157 views122 votes15 years 7 months ago PADL 2004»
We describe the current status of and provide performance results for a prototype compiler of Prolog to C, ciaocc. ciaocc is novel in that it is designed to accept different kinds...