Description:
Explicitly or implicitly, programming languages mirror domains. The best languages weave the concerns of a domain through a compatible computational model to offer programmers the best of both worlds. This statement naturally raises the question: What is the appropriate programming language for Web applications in the Ajax style?
Our answer, Flapjax, is layered atop JavaScript. Flapjax demonstrates that the Web has a natural abstraction: event-driven reactivity. After explaining this we will build on it to examine connections to Web services, data binding, and access-control security. Depending on time, I can also cover some highlights of our work in this area on implementation techniques, principles for interfacing to legacy components, program transformations to improve performance, applications, and more.
Speaker(s):
Shriram Krishnamurthi, associate professor, Computer Science, Brown University
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