Reference Information for CIS346

This page contains links to important documentation that can be found on the web. This information can be very helpful to succeeding in this class.

Research Papers about Language Design

Growing a Language Guy Steele, OOPSLA 1998
Lisp: Good News Bad News How to Win Big by Richard P. Gabriel of Lucid, Inc.

Links to Languages

Information for the Haskell Language.
Yahoo!!! Links to a ton of programming languages
Standard ML or SML is a language that is exploring some new ideas in language design. A good language for learning about lots of language ideas and features. SML
The CMU Fox Project . This project is looking at using SML advanced features in developing a real operating system.
Its all about Perl . The homepage for the Perl language.
The Python language. This an interpreted OO language. Some say it is like Perl, but with OO structures.
The Tcl language. "Tcl" is pronounced as "Tickle"..heheheheeh. This is a scripting language for building GUIs.
The HP C++ language is the High-Performance C++ language. This is used for supercomputer applications. We have a compiler for this on the Origin 2000(africa) on Spelman's Campus.

Links to Java Resources


Java Documentation

Java API(Info on all of the java objects)
Java Language Specification
CIS 472 Java References

Links to SML Resources


The Standard ML Basis Library
Documentation for Standard ML of New Jersey
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