The Programming Languages Reading Group

University of Wisconsin, Madison


Welcome to the home page for the Programming Languages Reading Group at the University of Wisconsin. We are a group of students, mostly those interested in programming languages and compilers, who meet to discuss papers that are (at least loosely) related to our field of study. We congregate at 2:30 p.m. on Wednesdays in room 5331.

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For more information, contact mulhern at mulhern@cs.wisc.edu.

Schedule for Spring '04:
Date
Paper Presenter
Jan. 26, 2004 M. Evered, J. L. Keedy, A. Schmolitzky, G. Menger.
How Well Do Inheritance Mechanisms Support Inheritance Concepts?
[ Citeseer ]
mulhern
Feb 2, 2004 David Ungar and Randall B. Smith
SELF: The Power of Simplicity
Lisp and Symbolic Computation, 1991
[ Sun ]
mulhern
Feb 9, 2004 Craig Chambers
Object-oriented Multi-Methods in Cecil
ECOOP, 1992
[ Citeseer ]
Kent
Feb 16, 2004 Heinz W. Schmidt and Stephen M. Omohundro
CLOS, Eiffel, and Sather: A Comparison
[ Citeseer ]
mulhern
Feb 23, 2004 Joshua Bloch
Effective Java Programming: Substitutes for Missing C Constructs: Replace Enums With Classes
[ Java Developer Pages ]
and
A Typesafe Enum Facility for the Java Programming Language
[ Java Community Process Pages ]
mulhern
Mar 1, 2004 Bryan Ford
Parsing expression grammars: a recognition-based syntactic foundation
[ ACM Digital Library ]
Suan
Mar 31, 2004
John Ousterhout
Why Threads Are A Bad Idea (for most purposes)
John Ousterhout's Home Page ]
Nick
April 7, 2004
Tim Harris and Keir Fraser
Language Support for Lightweight Transactions
OOPSLA, 2003
[ ACM Digital Library ]
matt
April 14, 2004
Erik Johnsson and Konstantinos Sagonas and Jesper Wilhelmsson
Heap architectures for concurrent languages using message passing
ISMM, 2002
ACM Digital Library ]
For some background on Erlang, you might want to read:
Joe Armstrong
Erlang - A survey of the language and its industrial applications.
1996
Erlang site ]
Kent
April 21, 2004
Henry G. Baker
CONS should not CONS its arguments, part II: Cheney on the M.T.A.
ACM SIGPLAN Notices, 1995
[ ACM Digital Library ]
Will
April 28, 2004 and
May 5, 2004
Darrell Feguson and Dwight Deugo
Call with Current Continuation Patterns
[ PDF file ]
Nick



Schedule for Spring '02
Schedule for Fall '02
Schedule for Spring '03
Schedule for Fall '03
[ Programming Languages and Compilers ] [ Seminar ]