ESI: Easy software interfacing tools for Turbo Pascal programming of digital input-output devices

Software tools in Pascal

Type Inference of Turbo Pascal

Type inference is generally thought of as being an exclusive property of the functional programming paradigm. We argue that such a feature may be of significant benefit for also standard imperative languages. We present a working tool (available by WWW) providing these benefits for a full version of Turbo Pascal. It has the form of a preprocessor that analyzes programs in which the type annotat...

Functional programming and input/output

A Software Environment for HighPerformance Input / Output ?

Input/Output (I/O) for parallel and distributed systems has drawn increasing attention in the past few years as it has become apparent that I/O performance much more than CPU or communication performance was the limiting factor for high performance computing systems. Tackling this issue, this paper provides an outline of a programming environment designed for highly eecient, scalable and conven...

Input/Output Devices and Interaction Techniques

The computing literature often draws a sharp distinction between input and output; computer scientists are used to regarding a screen as a passive output device and a mouse as a pure input device. However, nearly all examples of human-computer interaction require both input and output to do anything useful. For example, what good would a mouse be without the corresponding feedback embodied by t...