A report on the Sisal language project

All software evolves, and programming languages and programming language tools are no exception. And just like in ordinary software construction, modular implementations can help ease the process of changing a language implementation and its dependent ...

The acquisition of parallel processors in the scientific community is increasing, but the difficulties of parallel programming persist. Three approaches have emerged: automatic parallelizing compilers for extant languages; extended languages; and new ...

The report gives a defining description of the programming language Scheme. Scheme is a statically scoped and properly tail-recursive dialect of the Lisp programming language invented by Guy Lewis Steele, Jr. and Gerald Jay Sussman. It was designed to have ...