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The Xtatic experience

Vladimir Gapeyev, Michael Y. Levin, Benjamin C. Pierce, and Alan Schmitt. The Xtatic experience. Technical Report MS-CIS-04-24, University of Pennsylvania, October 2004.

The aim of the present paper is to discuss Xtatic - less formally and more holistically - from the perspective of language design. We survey the most significant issues we faced in the design process and evaluate the choices we have made in addressing them.

As you'd expect a lot of time is spent explaining the design decisions concerning the type system.

More Xtatic papers here.

By Ehud Lamm at 2004-11-14 07:40 | XML | login or register to post comments | other blogs | 4373 reads

Generic Functions have Landed (Python)

A semi-stable generic function API for Python.

Somewhere between CLOS style OOP and AOP, I'd say.

I don't have the time to explore this, but other might wnat to give it a go and report their experience.

By Ehud Lamm at 2004-11-14 10:53 | OOP | Python | login or register to post comments | other blogs | 8169 reads