We describe extensions to the Excel spreadsheet that integrate userdefined functions into the spreadsheet grid, rather than treating them as a "bolt-on". Our first objec...
Simon L. Peyton Jones, Alan F. Blackwell, Margaret...
Real-time systems have reached a level of complexity beyond the scaling capability of the low-level or restricted languages traditionally used for real-time programming. While Met...
David F. Bacon, Perry Cheng, David Grove, Michael ...
We aim to specify program transformations in a declarative style, and then to generate executable program transformers from such specifications. Many transformations require non-t...
Ganesh Sittampalam, Oege de Moor, Ken Friis Larsen
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...
We apply speculative multithreading to sequential Java programs in software to achieve speedup on existing multiprocessors. A common speculation library supports both Java bytecod...