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For those with access to the TEA interpreter: https://bit.ly/projtea You can run that Special Prayer Computer Program using the following TEA source-code: v:vM:{thn} i!:{4rlo}|m!:|v: y:vM|x!:x|v:vM y:|x*:vM|r:4:d v:P m!:nema|v:vL g*:.:P:vL NOTE: code might…
In other research updates, we've recently established yet another interesting application of TEA (and general Text Processing) useful in a real life/practical scenario: typesetting or rather, publication processing.
So, one very useful example is the case of especially unprofessional or inexperienced Internet-based writers of literature (poetry, prose, essays, blogs and such) that need to get their works well prepared for proper formal publication (say, as final, polished PDFs or ePUBs).
So, using a good and generic Text Processing program, we have found that such unformatted or plain text writings can be automatically processed using a text transformation program (we've explored with TEA and Python), and these can then help re-write the original manuscript into a ready-to-publish format; LaTeX or HTML from which final publication packages can then be automatically generated.
Examples of such transformation programs shall follow in a future update.
So, one very useful example is the case of especially unprofessional or inexperienced Internet-based writers of literature (poetry, prose, essays, blogs and such) that need to get their works well prepared for proper formal publication (say, as final, polished PDFs or ePUBs).
So, using a good and generic Text Processing program, we have found that such unformatted or plain text writings can be automatically processed using a text transformation program (we've explored with TEA and Python), and these can then help re-write the original manuscript into a ready-to-publish format; LaTeX or HTML from which final publication packages can then be automatically generated.
Examples of such transformation programs shall follow in a future update.
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It is early 2025 and we continue our review of ACM SLE papers in a streak that kicked off in 2024. Today I came across the first SLE paper specifically about Python, the programming language we all love and one of the most popular today. Paper is written by…
This won't be the first ACM keynote that I've reviewed, however, it's arguably the shortest of them thus far. Presented at the SLE 2022 conference in Auckland, New Zealand, this keynote treats of the important matter of embedded DSLs mostly. For today, we'll be content with the elaborate author bio already presented in the paper itself.
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This won't be the first ACM keynote that I've reviewed, however, it's arguably the shortest of them thus far. Presented at the SLE 2022 conference in Auckland, New Zealand, this keynote treats of the important matter of embedded DSLs mostly. For today, we'll…
---[Brief Bio]:
Shigeru Chiba is Professor at Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo. After internship at XEROX Palo Alto Research Center, he received his PhD degree from The University of Tokyo in 1996. While doing research on programming languages, particularly, reflection, meta programming, and aspect orientation, he has been developing several software products. For example, his Java bytecode engineering library named Javassist has been widely used in both academia and industry. This work recently won AITO Test of Time Award 2000 in 2020. He is also the author of several Japanese books for practitioners and students [1].
Shigeru Chiba is Professor at Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo. After internship at XEROX Palo Alto Research Center, he received his PhD degree from The University of Tokyo in 1996. While doing research on programming languages, particularly, reflection, meta programming, and aspect orientation, he has been developing several software products. For example, his Java bytecode engineering library named Javassist has been widely used in both academia and industry. This work recently won AITO Test of Time Award 2000 in 2020. He is also the author of several Japanese books for practitioners and students [1].
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The abstract-only paper[1] is specifically about embedded DSLs first of all, but also presents the matter of language users that argue against the invention of new [external?] languages and instead prefer to merely learn new [embedded] language libraries in [base/host] languages they are already familiar with. [Perhaps, because the user can readily explore/exploit the new language via an interface in the language they are already familiar/comfortable with].
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1. Shigeru Chiba. 2022. People Do Not Want to Learn a New Language But a New Library (Keynote). In Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE ’22), December 06–07, 2022, Auckland, New Zealand. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1 page. https://doi.org/10.1145/3567512.3571831
#review #notes #acm #sle #jwl #phd
The abstract-only paper[1] is specifically about embedded DSLs first of all, but also presents the matter of language users that argue against the invention of new [external?] languages and instead prefer to merely learn new [embedded] language libraries in [base/host] languages they are already familiar with. [Perhaps, because the user can readily explore/exploit the new language via an interface in the language they are already familiar/comfortable with].
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1. Shigeru Chiba. 2022. People Do Not Want to Learn a New Language But a New Library (Keynote). In Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE ’22), December 06–07, 2022, Auckland, New Zealand. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1 page. https://doi.org/10.1145/3567512.3571831
#review #notes #acm #sle #jwl #phd
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People Do Not Want to Learn a New Language But a New Library (Keynote) | Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference…
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This won't be the first ACM keynote that I've reviewed, however, it's arguably the shortest of them thus far. Presented at the SLE 2022 conference in Auckland, New Zealand, this keynote treats of the important matter of embedded DSLs mostly. For today, we'll…
---[INTRO]:
I've just finished reviewing a paper that at first glance seemed to be very boring to read; in fact, I first dozed through the first two hours attempting to read it! But, it later turned out to be quite important and especially in the research results section where it creatively presented the research participants feedback, it made me laugh many times! Yes, it perhaps one of few SLE papers I've come across treating of the problems mostly specific to cloud computing, a domain not many software engineers/researchers need to worry about/deal with on a daily (perhaps that's why I first got bored a bit).
I've just finished reviewing a paper that at first glance seemed to be very boring to read; in fact, I first dozed through the first two hours attempting to read it! But, it later turned out to be quite important and especially in the research results section where it creatively presented the research participants feedback, it made me laugh many times! Yes, it perhaps one of few SLE papers I've come across treating of the problems mostly specific to cloud computing, a domain not many software engineers/researchers need to worry about/deal with on a daily (perhaps that's why I first got bored a bit).
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Dr. Georg Simhandl is an external lecturer at the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of Vienna[1]. He is part of the Research Group Software Architecture and has been actively involved in various research activities since 2018[1]. His research focuses on software architecture, cognitive science, program comprehension, and machine learning on code[2].
Some of his notable publications include work on microservice security metrics, eye-tracking studies on software maintenance, and security architecture case studies[1]. He has collaborated with researchers from institutions like the Hamburg University of Technology and the University of Castilla-La Mancha[2].
Dr. Georg Simhandl is an external lecturer at the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of Vienna[1]. He is part of the Research Group Software Architecture and has been actively involved in various research activities since 2018[1]. His research focuses on software architecture, cognitive science, program comprehension, and machine learning on code[2].
Some of his notable publications include work on microservice security metrics, eye-tracking studies on software maintenance, and security architecture case studies[1]. He has collaborated with researchers from institutions like the Hamburg University of Technology and the University of Castilla-La Mancha[2].
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---[BRIEF BIO]: Dr. Georg Simhandl is an external lecturer at the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of Vienna[1]. He is part of the Research Group Software Architecture and has been actively involved in various research activities since 2018[1].…
The other author, Uwe Zdun is a Full Professor for Software Architecture at the Faculty of Computer Science, University of Vienna[3]. Prof. Uwe's research interests include software architecture, software patterns, modeling of complex software systems, service-oriented systems, domain-specific languages, model-driven development, and empirical software engineering[3].
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The other author, Uwe Zdun is a Full Professor for Software Architecture at the Faculty of Computer Science, University of Vienna[3]. Prof. Uwe's research interests include software architecture, software patterns, modeling of complex software systems, service…
Before joining the University of Vienna, Uwe worked as an assistant professor at the Vienna University of Technology and the Vienna University of Economics and Business[3]. He has published over 130 peer-reviewed articles and is co-author of several professional books, including "Remoting Patterns – Foundations of Enterprise, Internet, and Realtime Distributed Object Middleware" and "Process-Driven SOA – Proven Patterns for Business-IT Alignment"[3].
Uwe Zdun is also a member of the Scientific Board of SBA Research and has participated in numerous R&D projects[3]. He serves as an editor for the journal Transactions on Pattern Languages of Programming (TPLoP) and is an Associate Editor-in-Chief for design and architecture for the IEEE Software magazine[3].
Uwe Zdun is also a member of the Scientific Board of SBA Research and has participated in numerous R&D projects[3]. He serves as an editor for the journal Transactions on Pattern Languages of Programming (TPLoP) and is an Associate Editor-in-Chief for design and architecture for the IEEE Software magazine[3].
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It is a well written paper first of all, and is very recent (2024). It is mostly based on qualitative research leveraging the Thematic Analysis research method[4]. It's results were based on assessment of 40 participants spanning two modern approaches to automating cloud computing infrastructure deployments and their management; SDK+GPL-based [Nitric] Vs PL-based(IaC DSL) [Wing], and the overall results show how either approaches offered comparable performances [4] (perhaps since either merely abstract away native cloud automations not under dev/user control), however, the later offered the best traceability over such automations, while the former is simplest for newbies. Paper recommends improving traceability in SDK based methods as well as implementation of tools capable of simulating cloud-native operations on local/on-site infrastructure in future IaC and/or IfC toolsets.
It is a well written paper first of all, and is very recent (2024). It is mostly based on qualitative research leveraging the Thematic Analysis research method[4]. It's results were based on assessment of 40 participants spanning two modern approaches to automating cloud computing infrastructure deployments and their management; SDK+GPL-based [Nitric] Vs PL-based(IaC DSL) [Wing], and the overall results show how either approaches offered comparable performances [4] (perhaps since either merely abstract away native cloud automations not under dev/user control), however, the later offered the best traceability over such automations, while the former is simplest for newbies. Paper recommends improving traceability in SDK based methods as well as implementation of tools capable of simulating cloud-native operations on local/on-site infrastructure in future IaC and/or IfC toolsets.
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---[ABOUT PAPER]: It is a well written paper first of all, and is very recent (2024). It is mostly based on qualitative research leveraging the Thematic Analysis research method[4]. It's results were based on assessment of 40 participants spanning two modern…
---[REFS]:
1. https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/persons/georg-simhandl
2. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=TqKSZpAAAAAJ
3. https://www.sba-research.org/team/uwe-zdun/
4. Simhandl, Georg, and Uwe Zdun. "Cloud Programming Languages and Infrastructure From Code: An Empirical Study." Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering. 2024. URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3687997.3695643
#review #notes #acm #sle #jwl #phd
1. https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/persons/georg-simhandl
2. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=TqKSZpAAAAAJ
3. https://www.sba-research.org/team/uwe-zdun/
4. Simhandl, Georg, and Uwe Zdun. "Cloud Programming Languages and Infrastructure From Code: An Empirical Study." Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering. 2024. URL: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3687997.3695643
#review #notes #acm #sle #jwl #phd
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The other author, Uwe Zdun is a Full Professor for Software Architecture at the Faculty of Computer Science, University of Vienna[3]. Prof. Uwe's research interests include software architecture, software patterns, modeling of complex software systems, service…
OMG! The University of Vienna (in Austria) is such an amazing institution! Wow
Internet Talk Show about Makerere 75th Graduation
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Here's the official discussions and commentaries about the 75th Graduation at Makerere University, by the IC Crew... 🔥👆🏼🤣
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GIC SIA Internet TV – Internet Talk Show about Makerere 75th Graduation
I'm pretty sure I have some students or peers of mine in here that graduated today or that shall graduate soon. So, on your behalf.. yep, we celebrate that milestone 👋🎓😄🗞️👆🏼
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This won't be the first ACM keynote that I've reviewed, however, it's arguably the shortest of them thus far. Presented at the SLE 2022 conference in Auckland, New Zealand, this keynote treats of the important matter of embedded DSLs mostly. For today, we'll…
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We continue with our review of 🌐 ACM SLE research 🗞️✨ papers below... 👇🏻👇🏻
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Today we've come across a meta language engineering project; PRISM which the paper prefers to describe as a "Shape-Diverse" solution to language engineering. It is a 2018 SLE paper that builds on earlier ideas from 2014 by one of the co-authors (Benoit Combemale Professor of Software Engineering at the University of Rennes, France [4]). In a sense, it can help in solving cross-platform software development problems via the idea of a multi-platform transpiler intermediary.
Today we've come across a meta language engineering project; PRISM which the paper prefers to describe as a "Shape-Diverse" solution to language engineering. It is a 2018 SLE paper that builds on earlier ideas from 2014 by one of the co-authors (Benoit Combemale Professor of Software Engineering at the University of Rennes, France [4]). In a sense, it can help in solving cross-platform software development problems via the idea of a multi-platform transpiler intermediary.