e-Science 101
Methods of Computational Science and Engineering - Fall'07
1:00-2:30PM Tuesday & Thursday in Powell-Booth 100
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Lecture 2
Flavors of Languages - Ashish Mahabal & Mark Stalzer
The talk provides a very broad overview of different types of programming languages with a mention of tools that aid in programming.
Slides (pdf files) Part One and Part Two
Some relevant links:
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Why functional programming matters - John Hughes
http://www.math.chalmers.se/~rjmh/Papers/whyfp.pdf -
L Allison's pages on Lambda calculus:
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~lloyd/tildeFP/Lambda/ -
Efficiency and Perl (John Macdonald)
http://www.perl.org/tpc/1998/Perl_Language_and_Modules/Efficient%20Perl/handout.html -
99 bottles of beer
http://99-bottles-of-beer.net/ -
hammin numbers in perl
http://perl.plover.com/Stream/stream.html -
hamming numbers in prolog
http://lml.ls.fi.upm.es/~jjmoreno/hamming.pr -
Computer language benchmarks game
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org -
Programming language theory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_language_theory -
Cell Broadband Engine Architecture and its first implementation
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/power/library/pa-cellperf/ -
The Java HotSpot Performance Engine Architecture
http://java.sun.com/products/hotspot/whitepaper.html
Exercises
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Write a program to generate Hamming numbers in at least 3 different (types?) of
languages -
Compare them against each other in a few
different ways (speed, memory, typing requirements) -
Use a debugger during the exercise and when testing it