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  Design concepts in programming languages
Turbak F., Gifford D., The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008. 1200 pp.  Type: Book (9780262201759)

This massive tome describes several concepts and techniques used in designing programming languages:...
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Oct 5 2009  
  Static dependent costs for estimating execution time
Reistad B., Gifford D. ACM SIGPLAN Lisp Pointers VII(3): 65-78, 1994.  Type: Article

Reistad presents a method for statically estimating program execution time in this excellent and readable paper. It can be added to any statically typed polymorphic programming language, and thereby provides yet another illustration of...
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Nov 1 1995  
  Implementing Remote Evaluation
Stamos J., Gifford D. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 16(7): 710-722, 1990.  Type: Article

Remote evaluation (REV) is a generalization of remote procedure call (RPC) in which an expression is transmitted instead of a procedure name. The paper starts with an introduction that motivates REV and compares it with similar propose...
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Jul 1 1991  
  Remote pipes and procedures for efficient distributed communication
Gifford D., Glasser N. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems 6(3): 258-283, 1988.  Type: Article

The paper presents a new, improved model for distributed communications systems. The authors call it a channel model in order to describe its functionality more suggestively and, also, to hint at the model’s main stren...
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Apr 1 1989  
  The Cedar file system
Gifford D., Needham R., Schroeder M. Communications of the ACM 31(3): 288-298, 1988.  Type: Article

The Cedar file system is part of the Cedar programming environment at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. It was designed to realize the following goals: high-performance remote file access by workstations, low amortized system cost, high...
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Dec 1 1988  

   
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