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Welcome to BCA ⚑⚑ our Virtual Learning Space. Mostly Blackboard snapshots, sometimes with explanatory/exploratory and analytical notes. Open teaching efforts by Fut. Prof. JWL at his BC gate on 1st Cwa Road and HQ research dissemination.
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A class in unaided information processing; code breaking, data mining, decoding and more... All, by chalk, hand and eye.
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TEX: \defβ€’\*β€’{*} \defβ€’\starβ€’#1β€’{#1\*} \starβ€’t TEA: v:star:{r:$:* }|i:t|e*:star (both) *OUT:* t* First Analysis: Ugandan-invented Text Processing language likely to out-perform world's most popular Text Processing/Typesetting language TeX/LATeX! πŸ€žπŸ‘“πŸ“–β³
Further research work and reviews of the global industry in the Software Language Engineering field is currently on-going at our lab and the results shall surely help us to better contrast our TEA Language to other old, new and future programming languages as well as help to determine how best to evolve the language moving forward πŸ€žπŸ‘“πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¬
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Further research work and reviews of the global industry in the Software Language Engineering field is currently on-going at our lab and the results shall surely help us to better contrast our TEA Language to other old, new and future programming languages…
Talking of which, in the on-going arduous task to review the publications in the field's topmost journal.. ACM SLE, progress is being made. Currently just concluded reviewing my fourth paper from a collection of about 32! Haha here, in two (not-quantitatively accurate but interestingly conceptually representative) word clouds, we get a glimpse of the most important terminologies across the field of Language Engineering covering the special case of DSLs.

Before ACM SLE, had been reading researchers such as Nuno Oliveira (~1997), but this particular streak caters for the important ACM-editor-recommended DSL review paper from ~2000 by Arie van Deursen [1]. A paper so full of SLE gems, and a sure critical precursor to the later ~2011 ACM SLE!!

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REFS:

1. Van Deursen, A., Klint, P. and Visser, J., 2000. Domain-specific languages: An annotated bibliography. ACM Sigplan Notices, 35(6), pp.26-36.
Great fellow. Gave us an important paper from August 2024!
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Surely sounds like a great win for UGANDA here..
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This paper is a technical proposal for the NIM, a national App Store for the Internet ICT ecosystem in Uganda and beyond. It is a tentative RIF-funded research project spearheaded by Joseph W. Lutalo.
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In Research & Innovations for our collective progress.
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Calling on all our/my active students and parents to please pay us our/my fees so we/I can also pay their fees πŸ™πŸ”†πŸ”±πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¬πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¬
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Thanks, blackboard adventure members πŸ‘†πŸ» for staying put
We are busy reading, writing, researching... With the best minds around the world!

So, today, would like to mention...

Dimi Racordon Ph.D, who wrote a 2024 paper, "Type Checking with Rewriting Rules" that shall further open your eyes on interesting formalisms useful in expressing arguments about generic algorithms and data structures. Her paper builds on previous work by Prof. Jeremy Siek (University of Indiana), that first presented the generics formal language F^G in his 2005 Ph.D dissertation.

Let's keep moving together...🀞😁

#acmers #sle #research #tea #languages #jwl #phdwork #wip
Tis action and reaction time once again! Students at all levels encouraged to attempt and solve this little set of problems. I shall only offer one hint for my little ones in Top class: count and match...

/Cheers: J. Willrich L. @so-called BC Adventures 🀭
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Continuing in our special review of contemporary leaders across the Language Engineering field, today I'd like to mention someone that loves Haskell so much!

https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/files/31169565/paper.pdf

πŸ‘†πŸ»πŸ‘“ I recently read this paper by Prof. L. Thomas van Binsbergen (University of Amsterdam). That important, albeit intimidating paper featured in the ACM SLE 2024 series. Cheers to you Prof, Elizabeth Scott and A. Johnstone --- those other two authors are true authorities on the obscure topic of "parser generators" or rather GLLs, with several other important works on the subject over the years.

L. Thomas van Binsbergen is an Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam, specializing in software language engineering, component-based semantics, generalized parsing, functional programming, and computer science education.

In the linked paper, we learn about the fact that better/generic parsers can be composed from other parsers by clever combination. Not very funky stuff to non-SLE people!