Flapjax: A programming language for Ajax applications

Proceedings of the Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications, OOPSLA

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-20

  Meyerovich, Leo A ^a   Guha, Arjun ^b   Baskin, Jacob ^c   Cooper, Gregory H ^c   Greenberg, Michael ^d   Bromfield, Aleks ^e   Krishnamurthi, Shriram ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GOOGLE INC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional reactive programming; JavaScript; Web programming

Indexed keywords

DATA DEPENDENCIES; DATA FLOW; DESIGN DECISIONS; EVENT STREAMS; ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES; INTERACTIVE INTERFACES; JAVASCRIPT; KEY FEATURE; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; REACTIVE PROGRAMMING; WEB APPLICATION; WEB PROGRAMMING;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; QUERY LANGUAGES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 72249096444     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1640089.1640091     Document Type: Conference Paper

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