Programming and Scripting Languages: the Twain Shall Meet
Speaker: Prof. David Watt, University of Glasgow
When: 2003-10-15 15:00:00
Venue: 78-420
Host: Prof. Paul Bailes
Abstract:Programs are low-level, hard to develop, fast, and
statically-typed. Scripts are high-level, easy to develop, slow, and
dynamically-typed. Of course, these are caricatures (however
commonly expressed) rather than accurate characterizations of
programs and scripts. In this talk I shall explore the similarities
and differences between programs and scripts, comparing the designs
of major programming languages such as Java and Ada, major scripting
languages such as Perl, and Python which is representative of a
convergence between programming and scripting.
Biography:David Watt is a Professor of Computing Science at the University of
Glasgow, Scotland. His research interests are the design,
specification, and implementation of programming languages. He is
the author of eight textbooks on programming and programming
languages.
Type: ITEE Seminar
Contact:Prof. Paul Bailes, seminar host (paul@itee.uq.edu.au)
or Guido Governatori (ITEE seminar co-ordinator)
(guido@itee.uq.edu.au)