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PLDI
2011
ACM
14 years 18 days ago
Languages as libraries
Programming language design benefits from constructs for extending the syntax and semantics of a host language. While C’s stringbased macros empower programmers to introduce no...
Sam Tobin-Hochstadt, Vincent St-Amour, Ryan Culpep...
UM
2007
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Understanding the Utility of Rationale in a Mixed-Initiative System for GUI Customization
In this paper, we investigate the utility of providing users with the system’s rationale in a mixed-initiative system for GUI customization. An evaluation comparing a version of ...
Andrea Bunt, Joanna McGrenere, Cristina Conati
POPL
2011
ACM
14 years 18 days ago
Pick your contexts well: understanding object-sensitivity
ensitivity has emerged as an excellent context abstraction for points-to analysis in object-oriented languages. Despite its practical success, however, object-sensitivity is poorl...
Yannis Smaragdakis, Martin Bravenboer, Ondrej Lhot...
CSFW
2000
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
Reasoning about Secrecy for Active Networks
In this paper we develop a language of mobile agents called uPLAN for describing the capabilities of active (programmable) networks. We use a formal semantics for uPLAN to demonst...
Pankaj Kakkar, Carl A. Gunter, Martín Abadi
HCW
1998
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
Steps Toward Understanding Performance in Java
Java's design goals of portability, safety, and ubiquity make it a potentially ideal language for large-scale heterogeneous computing. One of the remaining challenges is to c...
Doug Lea