Programming Languages

Programming Languages Group members Meetings 2005 Passing Score Notes

Group members

• pg
• nc
• mhamburg
• mschaub
• sstiller
• btennis
• shipra
• danielc
• antonell
• itp
• pdh
• jtalbot
• neilp
• nkwatra
• jgillula
• hllee
• nbronson
• munie

Meetings

Who	When I can meet
Example	M-F, 8am-5pm

These are the topics we covered during our first meeting, 2006-10-05:

• Parameter passing (by name, by value, by value-result, by reference)
• Scoping - static (aka lexical, pretty much everything) vs. dynamic (exceptions, weird Perl)
• Class inheritance - how it's implemented in C++ (vtable) and Smalltalk/Java (method dictionary)
• Exceptions - dynamically-scoped, exception chaining

These are the topics we covered during our second meeting, 2006-10-12:

• Typing - static vs. dynamic
• Type inference
• Parametric polymorphism - ML, C++ templates, Java generics

These are the topics we covered during our third meeting, 2006-10-19:

• Garbage collection - precise vs. conservative

Here are the topics still left to go through, which were on old exams:

• Function subtyping (huh?) - covariance (return values), contravariance (parameters)
• Functional programming - ML and Lisp, recursion, tail recursion optimization, closures
• Concurrency

2005 Passing Score

45/60

Notes

http://carlstrom.com/stanford/comps/Programming-Languages.txt
CS242 lecture notes from Philip Guo
CS301 presentation movie
CS242 notes (alternate)
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~ben/teaching/cs345_sp05/activation.html

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