Manifest: Tuesday 20 February 2001

Assignments
Thursday, 22 February	Problem Set 2

Readings

Read at least two of these before class Thursday:

• Fred Brooks, Language Design as Design, HOPL-II keynote address, 1993. Brooks won the Turing Award last year, and wrote The Mythical Man-Month about IBM's 360 Project.
• Guy L. Steele, Growing a Language, OOPSLA 1998 Keynote. Guy Steele was a co-designed of Scheme, and one of the leading proponents of Java (and a co-author of the Java Language Specificaion).
• Tony Hoare, Hints on Programming Language Design, 1973.

University of Virginia Department of Computer Science CS 655: Programming Languages

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