Semantics Seminar Schedule


Subject: Semantics Seminar Schedule
From: wand@ccs.neu.edu
Date: Mon Nov 26 2001 - 13:24:50 EST


NU Programming Languages Seminar
Wednesday, November 28, 2001, 10:30-12:30
306 Egan Hall, Northeastern University
    (building 61 on the map at http://www.neu.edu/maps/maps.html)

Doug Orleans

Fred: A Language For Writing Extensible Programs

I am developing a programming language, called Fred, with the goal of
improving the extensibility of programs. The design of Fred is
centered around a generalization of predicate dispatching, which
itself generalizes several other object-oriented dispatch mechanisms.
This allows programs to be easily extended with behavior orthogonally
to the subtyping hierarchy; in other words, Fred is also an
aspect-oriented programming language. I will demonstrate the features
of the language through examples, and compare them with examples in
other AOP languages. I will also discuss the prototype
implementation, which is embedded in MzScheme, as well as future
directions for language development.

Upcoming presentations:

12/5 Paul Steckler

1/9 Galen Williamson

1/23 Mitch Wand

Most meetings will be 1030-1230 in 306 EG.



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