Erik Meijer distinguishes pure functional languages from all the others. He emphasizes issues when mixing higher order closures with effects and discusses problems to be solved in web programming.

Programming languages are evolving to bring the software closer to hardware. As hardware architectures become more parallel (with the advent of multicore processors and FPGAs, for example ...

Description: A survey of language design issues and their implications for translation and run-time support. Examination of modern programming languages and features: Abstract data and control ...

AutoCAD is drafting and design software used to create everything from buildings to households items. But what if its connection to the 1960-founded LISP programming language could help engineers ...

This article addresses several key issues in the research on the potential relationship between programming language instruction and problem solving. Although the computer has been touted as the ...

Selinger’s team released their outline of the language, together with their preliminary library, at the Programming Language Design and Implementation conference in Seattle, Washington, last month.