Tag: Real-time computing

• Your assembly is my domain-specific language

  A few years ago I set out to write a clone of Sinclair BASIC as a domain-specific language (DSL) in Groovy. The end result was BINSIC, but it was much closer to an interpreter than a DSL: it turned out that strange ways that Groovy handled capitalised function/closure names meant that I could not match keywords…

  Adrian McMenamin

  October 24, 2016

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  computer science, DSL, Groovy, Real-time computing, RISCV

• Computer scientists’ lousy citation style

  I am reading this book: Soft Real-Time Systems: Predictability vs. Efficiency, and I am struck, once again, by the truly lousy style of publication reference that seem to be preferred by so many computer scientists, The style used in the book appears to be that favoured by the American Mathematical Society – the so-called “authorship…

  Adrian McMenamin

  February 25, 2012

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  ACM, American Mathematical Society, Bibliography, Chicago citation style, Citation, citation format, citation system, computer science, computer scientists, literature reviews, Operating system, Real-time computing, Real-Time Systems