From programming language design to computer construction

Teaching approaches to Computer Assisted Language Learning

Computers have been used for language teaching ever since the 1960's.Learning a second language is a challenging endeavor, and, for decades now, proponents of computer assisted language learning (CALL) have declared that help is on the horison. We investigate the suitability of deploying speech technology in computer based systems that can be used to teach foreign language skills. In this case,...

XML challenges to programming language design

People are using XML-based languages for a number of applications. The paper discusses what we can learn from this, and various programming language ideas and features inspired by XML applications and tools. Some but not all of the ideas have prototype implementations within Kawa.

Advanced programming language design

Interdisciplinary Programming Language Design

Traditional programming language design approaches center around theoretical and performance-oriented evaluation. Recently, researchers have been considering more approaches to language design, including the use of quantitative and qualitative user studies to evaluate how different designs affect users. In this paper, we argue for an interdisciplinary approach that incorporates many different m...

Programming language design concepts

ion is a mode of thought by which we concentrate on general ideas rather than on specific manifestations of these ideas. Abstraction is the whole basis of philosophy and mathematics, and is also fruitful in many other disciplines, including computer science. In systems analysis, abstraction is the discipline by which we concentrate on essential aspects of the problem at hand, and ignore all ine...