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PLDI
2011
ACM
14 years 8 months 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
16 years 3 days 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 8 months 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 10 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 10 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