The principal control-flow abstraction mechanism in the Cobol language is the PERFORM statement. Normally, PERFORM statements are used in a straightforward manner to define para...
This paper reports on the utilisation of object technology in a university-level course on software development, specifically designed for distance learning, and now enrolling ove...
Mark Woodman, Robert Griffiths, Simon Holland, Hug...
It is well-known that self-applicable partial evaluation can be used to generate compiler generators: cogen = mix(mix;mix), where mix is the specializer (partial evaluator). Howev...
The layered architecture of middleware platforms (such as CORBA, SOAP, J2EE) is a mixed blessing. On the one hand, layers provide services such as demarshaling, session management...
For memory constrained environments like embedded systems, optimization for program size is often as important, if not more important, as optimization for execution speed. Commonl...