This paper describes the author's career leading up to the publication of his 1969 paper Digital Computer Simulation: Computer Programming Languages, how it influenced the pa...
Objects model the world, and state is fundamental to a faithful modeling. Engineers use state machines to understand and reason about state transitions, but programming languages ...
Jonathan Aldrich, Joshua Sunshine, Darpan Saini, Z...
Manipulating semistructured data, such as XML, does not t well within conventional programming languages. A typical manipulation requires nding all occurrences of a structure matc...