Programming language design and analysis

Fall semester 2015/2016. previous: Fall 2014
Instructor: Marius Minea, marius@cs.upt.ro
Labs: Loránd Szakács

Course information

Lectures: Mon 18-20h, A 110
Lab: Tue 8-10h, Wed 18-20h, B528b
Office hours: on request

Evaluation:
Homeworks/lab/projects: 50%, Exam: 50%
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Lecture notes

  1. Introduction. Functional Programming.
  2. Lambda Calculus.
    Readings:
    Principles of Programming Languages, Uday Reddy, U. Birmingham (handouts 1-4)
  3. Type systems.
    Readings: Luca Cardelli: Type Systems (p.1-7)
    L. Cardelli, P. Wegner. On Understanding Types, Data Abstraction, and Polymorphism (sec. 1-1.5, 2.1-2.2)
    Typed lambda calculus and type inference. lecture slides by Jeff Foster, U. of Maryland (slides 1-17, 37-48, 58-63)
  4. Continuations. slides, TU Darmstadt (w/o simulation of web programs, implementation of continuations) ML example for factorial
    Eager and lazy evaluation. sieve of Eratosthenes. See also streams as delayed lists (from Abelson and Sussman)
  5. Garbage collection. slides by Vladimir Shmatikov, U. Texas, Ina Schaefer, U. Kaiserslautern
  6. The Java virtual machine slides from Aarhus University
  7. Dynamic compilation slides by Michael Hind (IBM) (w/o details of particular JVMs for sec. 3 and 4)
  8. Language support for concurrency.
    Concurrency in other languages (I. Stark, Edinburgh)
    Synchronization without locks (sec. 1 and 2)
  9. Guest lecture on TypeScript
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  11. Logic programming. Prolog basics
    Constraint logic programming. slides by Thom Frühwirth (terms, unification, resolution, comparison between LP and CLP, p. 107-123, 129-135)
    further reading: CLP in ECLiPSE (esp. Ch. 4)
  12. Evolution of Generics in Java. Reading: Bruce, Odersky, Wadler: A Statically Safe Alternative to Virtual Types, ECCOP 1998 PDF. See sec. 2, 3 (strengths of parametric and virtual types).
  13. Monads. See tutorials by Mike Vanier part 1, 2, 3 (you can skip the derivations), 4, 5
  14. Static vs. dynamic typing. Reading: E. Meijer, P. Drayton. Static Typing Where Possible, Dynamic Typing When Needed PDF
    Domain-specific languages.

Labs

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Homework

  1. Practice set
  2. Homework 1

Resources

Books

Online Courses

Martin Odersky. Functional Programming Principles in Scala

Software


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