SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 33, 1998

Volume 33, Number 1, January 1998

Activities

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  Fritz Henglein:
  SIGPLAN and the World Series. 1-2

Standards

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  Roger K. DeBry:
  Report of the IFIP Technical Committee on Software TC-2 Meeting. 15-21

Language Tips

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  Dieter Gluche, Dietmar Kühl, Karsten Weihe:
  Iterators Evaluate Table Queries (C++ Toolbox). 22-29

Garbage In / Garbage Out

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  Henry G. Baker:
  You Could Learn a Lot from a Quadratic: I. Overloading Considered Harmful. 30-38

Technical Correspondence

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  Nadia Nedjah:
  Minimal Deterministic Left-to-Right Pattern-Matching Automata. 40-47
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  Nicolas Anquetil, Jean G. Vaucher:
  Expressing Opposition in the Object Model, First Step towards Negation. 48-55
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  Charles E. McDowell, Elizabeth A. Baldwin:
  Unloading Java Classes That Contain Static Fields. 56-60
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  Xiaocong Fan, Dianxiang Xu, Jianmin Hou, Guoliang Zheng:
  SPLAW: A Computable Language for Agent-oriented Programming. 61-69

Volume 33, Number 2, February 1998

Activities

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  Robert R. Kessler:
  Executive Commitee News: SIGPLAN Conferences. 1

Workshop Report

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  Enrico Pontelli:
  Parallelism and Implementation Technology for (Constraint) Logic Programming. 15-17

Language Tips

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  Cass W. Everitt, John van der Zwaag, Robert J. Moorhead:
  COST: Common Object Support Toolkit (C++ Toolbox). 18-24

Functional Programming

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  Philip Wadler:
  An Angry Half-Dozen. 25-30

Forth

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  Paul Frenger:
  Observations on the EuroForth '97 Conference. 31-33

Garbage In / Garbage Out

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  Henry G. Baker:
  You Could Learn a Lot from a Quadratic: II. Digital Dentistry. 34-39

Technical Correspondence

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  Mária Bieliková, Pavol Návrat:
  Learning Programming in Prolog Using Schemata. 41-47
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  Andrew T. Kitchen:
  A Formal Approach to the Teaching of Programming Language Concepts. 48-55
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  Günter Dotzel, Hartmut Goebel:
  64 Bit Oberon. 56-58
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  K. Rangarajan, A. Balasubramaniam:
  Whene are Two Classes Equivalent? 59-64
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  Baowen Xu:
  Comments On Several Syntax Rules in Ada95. 65-67

Volume 33, Number 3, March 1998

Activities

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  Peter Lee:
  SIGPLAN Supports Your Professional Activities. 1

Language Tips

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  Peter H. Salus:
  Languages of the Net (Historial Notes). 16-20

Forth

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  Paul Frenger:
  The Growing Machine, a Pre-Forth Language Implementation. 21-23

Garbage In / Garbage Out

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  Henry G. Baker:
  March Möbius Madness with a Polynomial PostScript, March 32, 1998. 24-35

Technical Correspondence

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  Ronald E. Prather:
  A Modular Mathematical Programming Language. 38-56
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  Per Brinch Hansen:
  An Evaluation of High Performance Fortran. 57-64
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  Per Brinch Hansen:
  An Evaluation of The Message-Passing Interface. 65-72
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  Oscar Azañón Esteire, Juan Manuel Cueva Lovelle:
  J - Set of Tools for Native Code Generation for the Java Virtual Machine. 73-79

Volume 33, Number 4, April 1998

Standards

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  Rex Jaeschke:
  ISO Committee Document for C9X and Public Comment Period - The C Programming Language. 16

Functional Programming

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  Andrew W. Appel:
  SSA is Functional Programming. 17-20

Forth

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  Paul Frenger:
  The Talking Toaster. 21-25

Technical Correspondence

• 
  G. Alan Creak:
  Garbage: Two New Structures. 28-29

Selected Papers from the Second United Kingdom Java in the Computing Curriculum (JICC) Conference

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  Fintan Culwin:
  Editorial - Justifying Java? 31-33
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  Peter Martin:
  Java, the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. 34-39
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  Jeremy Gibbons:
  Structured Programing in Java. 40-43
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  Barry J. Cornelius:
  Using CORBA and JDBC to Produce Three Tier Systems. 44-52
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  Peter Burton:
  Kinds Of Language, Kinds Of Learning. 53-61

Volume 33, Number 5, May 1998

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  Jack W. Davidson, Keith D. Cooper, A. Michael Berman:
  Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN '98 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), Montreal, Canada, June 17-19, 1998. ACM 1998, ISBN 0-89791-987-4 [contents]

Volume 33, Number 6, June 1998

Activities

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  A. Michael Berman:
  SIGPLAN Notices - Where We Are, Wher We're Going. 1-2

Conference Report

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  Barbara G. Ryder:
  MASPLAS '98 - Conference Report. 16

Functional Programming

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  Matthias Felleisen, Robert Bruce Findler, Matthew Flatt, Shriram Krishnamurthi:
  The DrScheme Project: An Overview. 17-23

Forth

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  Paul Frenger:
  Forth in Space, or, So NEAR Yet So Far Out. 24-26

Garbage In/Garbage Out

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  Henry G. Baker:
  You Could Learn a Lot from a Quadratic: Newton Squares the Circle. 27-31

Technical Correspondence

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  Peter Kokol, Janez Brest:
  Fractal Structure of Random Programs. 33-38
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  Yariv Aridor, Shimon Cohen, Amiram Yehudai:
  Design of an Actor Language for Implicit Parallel Programming. 39-47
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  K. Rangarajan, P. Eswar:
  Understanding Class Evolution Through Atomic Changes. 48-53
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  F. H. D. van Batenburg, Ellen de Ridder, Joseph de Kerf:
  APL Extended Compared With Other Languages According to Halstead's Theory. 54-60
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  Massimo Ancona, Walter Cazzola:
  Static Header as Sentinel. 61-64

Volume 33, Number 7, July 1998

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  Thomas Ball, Frank Tip, A. Michael Berman:
  Proceedings of the SIGPLAN/SIGSOFT Workshop on Program Analysis For Software Tools and Engineering, PASTE '98, Montreal, Canada, June 16, 1998. ACM 1998, ISBN 1-58113-055-4 [contents]

Volume 33, Number 8, August 1998

Activities

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  Benjamin G. Zorn:
  An Invitation to OOPSLA '98. 1-3

Resources

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  Enrico Pontelli:
  Programming with {SETS} - An International Forum of Discussion. 16

Language Tips

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  Paul McNamee, Marty Hall:
  Developing a Tool for Memoizing Functions in C++ (C++ Toolbox). 17-22

Functional Programming

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  Philip Wadler:
  Why No One Uses Functional Languages. 23-27

Forth

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  Paul Frenger:
  A Tribute to FIG-Forth. 28-31

Technical Correspondence

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  Carl D. Offner:
  Per Brinch Hansen's Concerns about High Performance Fortran. 34-39
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  Jonathan L. Schilling:
  Optimizing Away C++ Exception Handling. 40-47
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  Pascal Ledru:
  JSpace: Implementation of a Linda System in Java. 48-50
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  Pascal Ledru:
  A Traveling Saleman in Java. 51-56

Volume 33, Number 9, September 1998

Activities

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  Mary Lou Soffa:
  1998 SIGPLAN Awards. 1-3

The European Scene

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  William L. Scherlis:
  ETAPS'98 Trip Report. 18-19

Forth

• 
  Paul Frenger:
  MUCKing Around With Forth. 20-24

Technical Correspondence

• 
  Richard Kelsey, William D. Clinger, Jonathan Rees:
  Revised⁵ Report on the Algorithmic Language Scheme. 26-76
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  Boyko B. Bantchev:
  Putting More Meaning in Expressions. 77-83
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  Charles E. McDowell:
  Reducing Garbage in Java. 84-86
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  Adrian Johnstone, Elizabeth Scott:
  rdp - An Iterator-Based Recursive Descent Parser Generator with Tree Promotion Operators. 87-94
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  Fuqing Yang, Hong Mei, Wanghong Yuan, Qiong Wu, Yao Guo:
  Experiences in Building c++ Front End. 95-102
• 
  Christopher J. Vogt:
  Floating Point Performance of Common Lisp. 103-107
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  John A. Atkinson-Abutridy, Anita A. Ferreira-Cabrera:
  The Design and Implementation of the GILENA Natural Language Interface Specification System. 108-117

Volume 33, Number 10, October 1998

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  Bjørn N. Freeman-Benson, Craig Chambers:
  Proceedings of the 1998 ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages & Applications, OOPSLA 1998, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, October 18-22, 1998. ACM 1998, ISBN 1-58113-005-8 [contents]

Volume 33, Number 11, November 1998

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  Dileep Bhandarkar, Anant Agarwal:
  ASPLOS-VIII Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, San Jose, California, USA, October 3-7, 1998. ACM Press 1998, ISBN 1-58113-107-0 [contents]

Volume 33, Number 12, December 1998

Activities

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  Mary Lou Soffa, David Notkin:
  SIGPLAN and SIGSOFT Joint Efforts. 1

Java Reflections

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  Brent W. Benson Jr.:
  Eat Your Own Dog Food. 16-19

Practical Parsing Patterns

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  Chris Clark:
  Overlapping Token Definitions. 20-24

Forth

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  Paul Frenger:
  Mind.Forth: Thoughts on Artificail Intelligence and Forth. 25-31

Technical Correspondence

• 
  Alexander Sakharov:
  Letter: Processing Recursive Data Types in Java. 33
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  Kurt Svensson:
  Index in BNF Grammars (Short Comment). 34
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  Vineeth Kumar Paleri, Y. N. Srikant, Priti Shankar:
  A Simple Algorithm for Partial Redundancy Elimination. 35-43
• 
  Igor D. D. Curcio:
  ASAP - A Simple Assertion Pre-processor. 44-51
• 
  Nick Hatzigeorgiu, Apostolos Syropoulos:
  Literate Programming and the "Spaniel" Method. 52-56
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  Marjan Hericko, Matjaz B. Juric, Ales Zivkovic, Ivan Rozman, Tomaz Domajnko, Marjan Krisper:
  Java and Distributed Object Models: An Analysis. 57-65
• 
  Timothy A. Budd:
  Functional Programming and the Fragile Base Class Problem. 66-71
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  Masud Ahmad Malik:
  Evolution of the High Level Programming Languages: A Critical Perspective. 72-80
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  Charles D. Havener:
  EQL - The Query Language You Never Heard Of. 81-88