Independent Study Schedule
This semester I'll be doing an independent study -- a survey of "dynamic languages" -- with Evan Chang. Each week I'll read a paper, and write a discussion of it, which he and I will use as a starting point for an hour-long weekly meeting. I'll post the discussion notes on this blog. The papers are listed here. Some of them are quite long and may have to be covered in halves.
- Herbert Stoyan, "Early LISP History", date unknown, pages unknown
- John McCarthy, "Recursive functions of symbolic expressions and their computation by machine, Part I", 1960, 34 pages
- Carl Hewitt, Peter Bishop and Richard Steiger, "A Universal Modular Actor Formalism for Artificial Intelligence", 1973, 11 pages.
- John Backus, "Can programming be liberated from the von Neumann style?", 1978, 28 pages
- Ken Iverson, "Notation as a tool of thought", 1980, 22 pages
- Pattie Maes, "Concepts and experiments in computational reflection", 1987, 8 pages
- Alan C. Kay, "An Early History of Smalltalk", 1993, 40 pages
- L. Peter Deutsch and Allan M. Schiffman, "Efficient implementation of the Smalltalk-80 system", 1984, 5 pages
- David Ungar and Randall B. Smith, "SELF: The power of simplicity", 1991, 18 pages
- Craig Chambers, David Ungar, and Elgin Lee, "An efficient implementation of SELF, a dynamically-typed object-oriented language based on prototypes", 1991, 38 pages.
- Cartwright and Fagan. "Soft Typing", 1991, 16 pages.
- Aiken, Wimmers, and Lakshman. "Soft Typing with Conditional Types", 1994, 10 pages.
