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GPCE’10 Tutorial Lecture: Agile and Efficient Domain-Specific Languages using Multi-stage Programming in Java Mint

Eddy, Walid, and I proposed a tutorial lecture for GPCE’10, and we’re delighted to report that it has been accepted for presentation on Sunday, October 10, 2010. Agile and Efficient Domain-Specific Languages using Multi-stage Programming in Java Mint Domain-specific languages … Continue reading

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New Version of DrJava with Mint: drjava-r5366-mint-r15665

The DrJava team released a new stable version of DrJava today, drjava-stable-20100816-r5366. I therefore created a new release of DrJava with Mint: August 16, 2010 (drjava-r5366-mint-r15665.jar). The latest release is available from the Mint implementation page: JavaMint-r15665.tar.gz JavaMint-r15665-binaries.zip drjava-r5366-mint-r15665.jar Nothing … Continue reading

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I’m Going to Eindhoven

The Java Mint tutorial lecture called “Agile and Efficient Domain-Specific Languages using Multi-stage Programming in Java Mint“, which Eddy and I proposed, has been accepted at GPCE 2010. I’m looking forward to being in Eindhoven in October. Before that, on … Continue reading

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New Mint Release: r15665

I just created a new release of Mint and DrJava with Mint: July 28, 2010 (r15665). It’s been over a year since we made the first version of Mint available! The latest release is, as always, available from the Mint … Continue reading

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New Mint Release: r15637

I just created a new release of Mint and DrJava with Mint: July 22, 2010 (r15637). It’s been over a year since we made the first version of Mint available! The latest release is, as always, available from the Mint … Continue reading

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javac Regression and Unit Tests

Joseph D. Darcy posted an informative article on writing regression and unit tests for new Java language features using JCK. This would have been useful for the Mint co-author who was supposed to write tests but ended up doing absolutely … Continue reading

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New Version of DrJava with Mint: drjava-r5246-mint-r15405

The DrJava team released a third beta version of DrJava today, drjava-beta-20100711-r5314. I therefore created a new release of DrJava with Mint: May 8, 2010 (r15405). The latest release is available from the Mint implementation page: JavaMint-r15405.tar.gz JavaMint-r15405-binaries.zip drjava-r5246-mint-r15405.jar Nothing … Continue reading

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PLDI 2010 Was Great Fun

PLDI 2010 in Toronto is over, and I have to say it was great fun. I met some old friends again, like Gregory and Luke, chatted with old acquaintances, and made many new connections. There was concurrency and parallelism everywhere, … Continue reading

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PLDI Talk Went Well

Eddy did a great job with the Mint talk at PLDI 2010 here in Toronto. Congratulations (in more than one way), Eddy! And thank you very much for the repeated shout-out to me in the audience. The slides for the … Continue reading

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Back in Houston for a Bit

I’m back in Houston for five days again. I was looking forward to sleeping in my own bed again, but that turned out to be less comfortable than I expected: My air conditioning unit had broken again, and it 31 … Continue reading

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Travel Arrangements for PLDI 2010

A few days ago I registered for PLDI 2010, just in time for early registration, and booked my flights from Houston to Toronto and back. I’m looking forward to being back in Canada and seeing my third Canadian city. I’ll … Continue reading

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New Mint Release: r15405

I just created a new release of Mint and DrJava with Mint: May 8, 2010 (r15405). The release is available from the Mint implementation page: JavaMint-r15405.tar.gz JavaMint-r15405-binaries.zip drjava-r5246-mint-r15405.jar The DrJava team released a second beta version of DrJava yesterday, drjava-beta-20100507-r5246. … Continue reading

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New DrJava with Mint Version

The DrJava team released a new beta version of DrJava today, drjava-beta-20100415-r5220. I have integrated the February 17, 2010 of Mint with the new DrJava beta release and am happy to provide to you a new version of DrJava with … Continue reading

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Camera-Ready Version of PLDI Paper Submitted

This afternoon, I submitted the final camera-ready version of our Mint paper that was accepted to PLDI 2010, Mint: Java Multi-stage Programming Using Weak Separability. Eddy and I incorporated some more suggestions we had received from Julia Lawall and Sam … Continue reading

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Happy About Purdue Talk

I’m really quite happy about the Mint talk I just gave at Purdue University. As a recurrent theme, I could have used a bit more practice, but it went a lot smoother than I would have expected, after just having … Continue reading

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Mint Talk at Purdue

I’m visiting my friend Luke at Purdue after SIGCSE, and we arranged for me to give a talk to the CS department. If you have the chance, come grill me on Monday, March 15, 2010 at 3:30 PM. Computer Science … Continue reading

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New Mint Release: r15116

I just created a new release of Mint and DrJava with Mint: February 17, 2010 (r15116). The release is available from the Mint implementation page: JavaMint-r15116.tar.gz JavaMint-r15116-binaries.zip drjava-r5178-mint-r15116.jar There were some small changes in the approximation of weak separability to … Continue reading

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Code<?> Escaped As Statement

A few days ago, I changed the Mint compiler to allow non-void code objects to be spliced in where statement form is required: Code x = ; Code c = ; This essentially generates the code below, which allows the … Continue reading

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New Mint Release: r15085

I just created a new release of Mint and DrJava with Mint: February 12, 2010 (r15085). The release is available from the Mint implementation page: JavaMint-r15085.tar.gz JavaMint-r15085-binaries.zip drjava-r5178-mint-r15085.jar The two changes since the last release involve CSP values and escapes … Continue reading

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Mint Talk Video

The video recording of the Mint talk I gave on Monday is now available on vimeo: Mint: A Multi-stage Extension of Java (Mathias Ricken) from Mathias Ricken on Vimeo.

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