A practical solution for scripting language compilers

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1916-1923

  Biggar, Paul ^a   De Vries, Edsko ^a   Gregg, David ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPILED PROGRAMS; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS; RUN-TIME CODE GENERATION; SCRIPTING LANGUAGES; STANDARD LIBRARIES;

APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES (API); COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEMANTICS;

PROGRAM COMPILERS;

EID: 72949118054     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1529282.1529709     Document Type: Conference Paper

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