We discuss the properties of strictly typed languages on the one hand and soft typing of the other and identify disadvantages of these approaches to type checking in the context of...
Dynamically typed programming languages are powerful tools for rapid software development. However, there are scenarios that would benefit from actual type information being avai...
Michael Haupt, Michael Perscheid, Robert Hirschfel...
A compiler-checked immutability guarantee provides useful documentation, facilitates reasoning, and enables optimizations. This paper presents Immutability Generic Java (IGJ), a n...
Yoav Zibin, Alex Potanin, Mahmood Ali, Shay Artzi,...
Beginning with BETA, a range of programming language mechanisms such as virtual classes (class-valued attributes of objects) have been developed to allow inheritance in the presen...
Dave Clarke, Sophia Drossopoulou, James Noble, Tob...
Synchronous functional languages such as Lustre or Lucid Synchrone define a restricted class of Kahn Process Networks which can be executed with no buffer. Every expression is as...