From: hbaker@netcom.com (Henry G. Baker)
Subject: Re: Final CFP: State in Programming Languages
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 1994 14:11:14 GMT
Date: 1994-09-17T14:11:14+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <hbakerCwA22r.3Lr@netcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 35a03g$amn@theopolis.orl.mmc.com
In article <35a03g$amn@theopolis.orl.mmc.com> dennison@romulus23.DAB.GE.COM (Ted Dennison) writes:
>In article <REDDY.94Sep14233849@reddy.cs.uiuc.edu>, reddy@cs.uiuc.edu (Uday S. Reddy) writes:
>|> Programming languages have been state-based since their inception.
>|> After a period of relative unpopularity, when research focused on
>|> declarative languages, interest in the treatment of state has been
>|> renewed. Research is increasingly devoted to finding a symbiotic
>|> relationship between the semantic foundations of declarative languages
>|> and the pragmatic handling of state in more conventional languages.
>|> This workshop brings together researchers from various areas,
>|> interested in the common issues of state manipulation in high-level
>|> programming languages.
>
>I have been out of college for over 5 years now, so my edu-computereese
>is a little rusty. Could someone explain to me the concept of "state"
>as was used in this post?
Just replace 'state-based' with 'non-functional' in the first sentence. :-)
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1994-09-14 23:38 Final CFP: State in Programming Languages Uday S. Reddy
1994-09-15 17:26 ` Ted Dennison
1994-09-17 14:11 ` Henry G. Baker [this message]
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