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  Essentials of programming languages
Friedman D., Wand M., The MIT Press, 2008. 416 pp.  Type: Book (9780262062794)

What is the best way to talk about the general topic of programming languages? Certainly, the most common approach adopts the pattern of “compare features X, Y, Z in languages A, B, and C,” but this of...
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Aug 15 2008  
  Selectors make set-based analysis too hard
Meunier P., Findler R., Steckler P., Wand M. Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation 18(3-4): 245-269, 2005.  Type: Article

Neither the title of this paper, its abstract, nor even the name of the journal in which it appears clearly explain that it mainly discusses the programming language Scheme. A specialist in this area would probably know that this journ...
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Nov 3 2006  
  Lightweight closure conversion
Steckler P., Wand M. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems 19(1): 48-86, 1997.  Type: Article

In order to enable a compiler to emit fast code, the authors annotate source programs with propositions during a program analysis phase. These propositions later justify certain transformations. While this is a manageable task in the a...
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Dec 1 1997  
  Essentials of programming languages
Friedman D. (ed), Haynes C., Wand M., MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1992.  Type: Book (9780262061452)

Hal Abelson’s foreword suggests that not only is this textbook different, it will change the landscape of programming language courses. In many ways, it is different. We have seen a progression of approaches to the study o...
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Feb 1 1994  
  Loops in combinator-based compilers
Wand M. Information and Control 57(2-3): 148-164, 1983.  Type: Article

The so-called “combinator-based” compiling method was introduced by Wand in a previous work [1]. In accordance with this technique, source programs from a language provided with denotational semantics are translated...
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Dec 1 1985  

   
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