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ACM: Digital Library: Communications of the ACM

Every grouping of people develops its own culture with formal and informal rules, norms of behavior, ways of operating and sanctions against those who fail to understand or conform. An individual cannot easily replace a familiar culture or values with those of a new community—he or she is more likely to selectively adapt or modify features of a new group that seem attractive or useful.—Gilly Sa...

Why Undergraduates Should Learn the Principles of Programming Languages∗ ACM SIGPLAN Education Board

Undergraduate students obtain important knowledge and skills by studying the pragmatics of programming in multiple languages and the principles underlying programming language design and implementation. These topics strengthen students’ grasp of the power of computation, help students choose the most appropriate programming model and language for a given problem, and improve their design skills...

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ACM SIGPLAN Continuation Workshop

Transparent scalability is an elusive characteristic sought for successful software projects which inevitably outgrow themselves. A common way to approach the design of such applications is with the MapReduce pattern, which requires considerable foresight into how the application can be broken down into the functional map and reduce operations. A problem with this and similar approaches is the ...

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