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Meek, Brian
Kings College London
S. Strand, United Kingdom
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JavaScript
Flanagan D. (ed), O’Reilly & Associates, Inc., Sebastopol, CA, 1996. Type: Book (9781565921931)
The very first sentence of this book shows the problem facing the author: “JavaScript is a new technology that is rapidly changing.” Flanagan’s answer is to produce a book labeled beta edition for Netsc...
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Jul 1 1997 |
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Handling floating-point exceptions in numeric programs
Hauser J. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems 18(2): 139-174, 1996. Type: Article
Computer arithmetic needs a work comparable to Ralph Nader’s Unsafe at any speed, and Hauser makes an excellent start. His approach is outlined in the second paragraph, ending “Programmers who use numeric lib...
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Mar 1 1997 |
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Restriction riddance: more power to parentheses
van Batenburg F. ACM SIGAPL APL Quote Quad 25(1): 220-224, 1994. Type: Article
The author points out that the history of APL is one of the removal of restrictions, citing as examples not having to declare the datatypes of language elements such as variables before use, not tying them to one datatype, and not havi...
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Aug 1 1995 |
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Ada 9X
Taft S. Communications of the ACM 35(11): 77-82, 1992. Type: Article
The revision of the original Ada language dubbed “Ada 9X” has (as of October 1993) reached the stage where a draft revised standard and a rationale [1,2] have been submitted for wider review within the stand...
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Apr 1 1994 |
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Building consensus for Ada 9X
Ploedereder E. Communications of the ACM 35(11): 85-88, 1992. Type: Article
Ploedereder gives an admirably clear account of the issues that arise in the revision of a major standard--a language standard in this case, but many factors apply much more widely, inside and outside information technology. A...
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Sep 1 1993 |
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Agenda: a personal information manager
Kaplan S., Kapor M., Belove E., Landsman R., Drake T. Communications of the ACM 33(7): 105-116, 1990. Type: Article
Lotus Agenda is a commercial software product that implements what the authors call an “item/category” database. This paper discusses its design principles. The authors point out that conventional database systems w...
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Jan 1 1991 |
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The usefulness of standard functions in Modula-2: an example in relation to VDI
So . Journal of Pascal, Ada & Modula-2 6(1): 5-9, 1987. Type: Article
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Dec 1 1988 |
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New infrastructures for research and technology transfer
Ennals R. (ed) Literary & Linguistic Computing 1(1): 13-29, 1986. Type: Article
The list of the paper’s sections below gives a reasonable picture of its coverage. The numbers in parentheses following the descriptions show the approximate length of each section in pages....
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Jun 1 1987 |
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Computer applications and algorithms
Gear C., 1986. Type: Book (9780574219701)
This book is a revision of the Applications and Algorithms: modules from the Introduction to Computers, Structured Programming, and Applictions, series. It can be used independently for a problem-solving course or ...
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Oct 1 1986 |
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Efficient algorithms to create and maintain balanced and threaded binary search trees
Iyengar S., Chang H. Software--Practice & Experience 15(10): 925-941, 1985. Type: Article
This paper is a follow-up to one published earlier by the same authors [1]. These two papers reference each other and both reference a third [2] which this reviewer has not seen, but is slated to appear in IEEE Transactions on Compu...
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Jun 1 1986 |
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