Assignment 5

Hot diggety-dog, assignment 5 is ready for consumption.  This one is indeed a little more involved.  Now we start to optimize the CPS.

Let the comments and questions begin.

Assignment 4

Sorry for not posting this sooner.  Let the comments begin.

Defunctionalization

For those looking for more defunctionalization examples, please take a look at the O. Danvy, L. Neilsen paper in Prof. Jagannathan’s reading list.

Assignment 3

Well, I’ve just begun to look at it, but Assignment 3 has been posted.  Let the comments and questions begin.

From the mailing list

In case you don’t subscribe to the mailing list, the TA says:

Hi All,

Project 1 grades are available at blackboard.purdue.edu.

Here is our grading policy:

Max: 50 Min: 0
Testcases.sml 20 points
all other testcases (*8) 30 points

Since this is the first project, we employed a less strict partial credit policy.
For testcases.sml,
most answers are correct, — 20 points
a few answers are correct, — 10 points

For all other cases,
Partial credit was given to those with sufficient documentation.

A few of you had compilation problems (on directory AbSyn).

- Yu

The Second Assignment

So as a first bit of advice about the second assignment, I’d like to point out that we have more than Prof. Jagannathan’s lecture slides. We have two papers that describe what he covers in the lecture. The first is Cardelli’s paper on how to do type inference. It is the same algorithm covered in class just in 20 pages of text. The second is Wright’s paper which discusses how to add references to a polymorphic type system like the one we are using. All in just 13 pages. It is just that easy.

Good luck, and please post comments and questions.

First Post

This is the blog for the Fall 2008 Compiling and Programming Systems class at Purdue. The goal is to provide a forum for students in the class to post helpful information for the class. Really the basis for this is Philip Schatz’s helpful blog from 2006. I’ll copy over announcements from the mailing list, and relevant hints from Philip’s site. I’ll also post any helpful websites I find. Now, I’m as busy as the rest of you, so I can’t make this thing a useful resources just on my own. In order for this to work, we need people to post stuff and share. Here’s some ideas of things that are fair game for this forum:

• Scribe notes for lectures
• Code examples/Test cases
• Clarification questions
• Group study sessions
• Links to useful Tutorials/Papers

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