The papers for the first 3 weeks are available at http://docs.msdnaa.net/ark_new/Webfiles/babel.htm.
| Date | Topic | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| March 30 | Organization meeting | |
| April 6 | A framework for interoperability Kathleen Fisher (AT&T Labs, Research), Riccardo Pucella (Cornell University) and John Reppy (Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs) |
Ben |
| April 13 | No-Longer-Foreign: Teaching an ML compiler to speak C "natively" Matthias Blume (Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs) |
Brian |
| April 20 | ILX: Extending the .NET Common IL for Functional Language Interoperability Don Syme (Microsoft Research, Cambridge) |
Erika |
| April 27 | Safe and Principled Language Interoperation Valery Trifonov and Zhong Shao ESOP 1999 http://flint.cs.yale.edu/flint/publications/resources.html |
Mike |
| May 4 | JNI Tutorial http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/native1.1/index.html |
Charlie |
| May 11 | Skim the following to get a rough idea of how COM works in practice: Then, read/skim the following: If you're curious about some aspect of the MIDL used in the above pages, then you can look it up in following reference: | Keunwoo |
| May 18 | LLVM Read the first link to get an overview of LLVM. Feel free to skim the second link; I'm going to borrow many of the slides for examples during the in-class discussion. Here is the LLVM project's publication page, in case you're interested in further reading: | Andrew |
| May 25 | The C-- language has changed considerably over the years, so there's no ideal overview paper. The most accessible overview is the garbage collection paper: I also recommend sections 1-4 of the exceptions paper. I think section 4 includes the best examples of how C-- supports different policies for run-time systems: For more information, you can check the C-- manual: | João |
| June 1 | Discussion | Dave |