General-purpose programming languages (GPL) are effective vehicles for FPGA design because they are easy to use, extensible, widely available, and can be used to describe both the hardware and software aspects of a design. The strengths of the GPL approach to circuit design have been demonstrated

Abstract. Most existing programming languages can be categorized as general purpose programming languages, meaning that they can be used to implement solutions for any given domain. They are not, in any way, optimized for a specific set of problems. In contrast, Domain Specific Languages (DSL

Abstract. The increasing available parallelism of computers demands new programming languages that make parallel programming dramati-cally easier and less error prone. It is proposed that datalog with negation and timestamps is a suitable basis for a general purpose programming language

data types Inheritance Object-based concurrency 1.

General-purpose programming languages (GPL) are effective vehicles for FPGA design because they are easy to use, extensible, widely available, and can be used to describe both the hardware and software aspects of a design. The strengths of the GPL approach to circuit design have been demonstrated

Many methods for XML processing have been proposed in the last few years. One popular approach is to process XML documents by using existing programming languages. Another popular approach is to create a new programming language specialized to the domain of XML processing. We propose a new approach

and using domain-specific languages. In this approach, the domain-specific language is defined on the basis of a general-purpose programming language. Thus, general programming mechanisms such as arithmetics, string manipulations, basic data structures etc. are automatically available in the domain

Abstract: This paper presents a proven and reusable methodology (MiLE) for performing a costeffective usability evaluation of an e-learning web application. MiLE is a scenario-driven inspection technique which is based on the concepts of user profile, user goal, scenario, and usability attribute. Mitigating the drawbacks and merging the respective benefits of state-of-the-art methods for usability evaluation, MiLE is intended to be a helpful tool for project managers, instructional designers, and evaluators to carry out a learner-centered validation which can anticipate and analytically justify the usability breakdowns, thus providing organized indications for a focused redesign. Examples of the results that can be obtained using MiLE are showed through a real case study evaluation of a large e-learning corporate platform. 1.

included in the system, a general purpose language has to be extended by a single instruction with a rather complex semantics. Due to this complexity it is more convenient to intro-duce two, but much simpler instructions. The paper also presents the method of implementing those instructions in a

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