Elegant C

A recent ACM article,  C is Not a Low-Level Language , argues that for all of our impressions that C is close to hardware, it is not actuall...

The study is several years old, but was recently reprinted in the Communications of the ACM.  In it, they mined GitHub data for active open ...

Today, I went to Michael Sullivan 's thesis defense, who passed.  The work was at a delightful intersection of my interests. We want b...

After lunch when we are all in food comas, let's attend the best paper talk! A Multi-institutional Study of Peer Instruction in Introdu...

One problem I had in preparing the curriculum for this fall is how to balance teaching programming languages versus the features that exist ...

Intersection of Programming Languages, Databases, and analytics (Machine Learning, etc) Businesses are big systems that can then be modele...

Having now read both Programming Language Pragmatics, Third Edition and Concepts of Programming Languages (11th Edition) , I have settled o...

Plenary Talk today, which pulls together all of the conference attendees.  Sunday's talk was based in databases, with Michael Stonebrake...

PLDI starts off this morning with Concurrency.  As a student volunteer, I worked this session and was limited as to what I could note about ...

PLDI itself began this morning and after the welcome, we had three distinguished papers.  I am excited that two of these works focused on co...

Obviously, there are some practitioners and researchers who base their living on programming language design.  But what of the rest of us?  ...

This fall I will again be Instructor of Record.  My appointment is to teach CS 4392 - Programming Languages.  This is an unusual situation i...

(contains Amazon affiliate link) I recently found, The Practice of Programming (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) , sitting on ...

Here is a small work that showed the power (or perhaps horror) of modern assembly languages. I've told people before that an instructio...

Several years ago I read a couple of interesting interviews with language designers, so my curiously was piqued by Masterminds of Programmin...

I was recently provided a link to another "programming" blog.  The blog, Existential Type , is written by a professor from my unde...

As an interlude to the OO series, I want to clarify something about language preference. BASIC, C, C++, C#, IA64, Java, Lisp, MIPS, ML / O...