ITEE seminar: Prof. David Watt, 03.00PM, Wed 15 Oct 2003

Programming and Scripting Languages: the Twain Shall Meet

Speaker: Prof. David Watt, University of Glasgow

When: 03.00PM, Wednesday 15 Oct 2003

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.

Contact:

Prof. Paul Bailes, seminar host (paul@itee.uq.edu.au)
or Guido Governatori (ITEE seminar co-ordinator) (guido@itee.uq.edu.au)

ITEE seminar web page: http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~seminar

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