Keyword

programming language design

Description: Programming language design is the computer science discipline of defining a programming language’s syntax, semantics, and mechanisms for expressing computation.

Primary topic: Logic, programming, and type systems (61%)

Wikidata ID: wiki/Q117190944

OpenAlex ID: keywords/programming-language-design

Can programming be liberated from the von Neumann style?

1978 · John Backus · Communications of the ACM · 2,615

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Actors: A Model of Concurrent Computation in Distributed Systems

1986 · Gul Agha · DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) · 2,223

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When and how to develop domain-specific languages

2005 · Marjan Mernik, Jan Heering, et al. · ACM Computing Surveys · 1,750

The Esterel synchronous programming language: design, semantics, implementation

1992 · Gérard Berry, Georges Gonthier · Science of Computer Programming · 1,739

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Literate Programming

1984 · D. E. Knuth · The Computer Journal · 1,467

The Scratch Programming Language and Environment

2010 · John Maloney, Mitchel Resnick, et al. · ACM Transactions on Computing Education · 1,423

Letters to the editor: go to statement considered harmful

1968 · Edsger W. Dijkstra · Communications of the ACM · 1,026

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Report on the programming language Haskell

1992 · Paul Hudak, Simon Peyton Jones, et al. · ACM SIGPLAN Notices · 1,018

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The art of the metaobject protocol

1992 · Kiczales, Gregor, Des Rivieres, Jim, et al. · Choice Reviews Online · 1,009

Dataflow process networks

1995 · E.A. Lee, T.M. Parks · Proceedings of the IEEE · 940

Self: The power of simplicity

1987 · David Ungar, Randall B. Smith · Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications · 907

Revised report on the algorithmic language ALGOL 60

1963 · J. W. Backus, F. L. Bauer, et al. · Communications of the ACM · 900

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The Problem with Threads

2006 · E.A. Lee · Computer · 878

The C++ programming language (2nd ed.)

1991 · Bjarne Stroustrup · Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc. eBooks · 859

SIMULA: an ALGOL-based simulation language

1966 · Ole-Johan Dahl, Kristen Nygaard · Communications of the ACM · 855

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Abstraction mechanisms in CLU

1977 · Barbara Liskov, Alan Snyder, et al. · Communications of the ACM · 777

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Programming with abstract data types

1974 · Barbara Liskov, Stephen Zilles · 740

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The programming language pascal

1971 · N. Wirth · Acta Informatica · 735

Explorations in Parallel Distributed Processing: A Handbook of Models, Programs, and Exercises

1989 · Alan H. Kawamoto, James L. McClelland, et al. · The American Journal of Psychology · 726

The Art of the Metaobject Protocol

1991 · Gregor Kiczales, Jim des Rivieres, et al. · The MIT Press eBooks · 689

Domain-specific languages

2012 · Proceedings/Proceedings -- IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing · 649

Denotational Semantics: A Methodology for Language Development

1986 · David A. Schmidt · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 625

The Programming Language Aspects of ThingLab, a Constraint-Oriented Simulation Laboratory

1981 · Alan Borning · ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems · 620

The next 700 programming languages

1966 · P. J. Landin · Communications of the ACM · 578

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An Introduction to Structured Modeling

1987 · Arthur M. Geoffrion · Management Science · 577

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Citation count: 104,100