Among various proposals for primitives for deconstructing XML data two approaches seem to clearly stem from practise: path expressions, widely adopted by the database community, and regular expression patterns, mainly developed and studied in the programming language community. We think that the two approaches are complementary and should be both integrated in languages for XML, and we see in t...

We present recent developments on the syntax of Real, a library for interfacing two Prolog systems to the statistical language R. We focus on the changes in Prolog syntax within SWI-Prolog that accommodate greater syntactic integration, enhanced user experience and improved features for web-services. We recount the full syntax and functionality of Real as well as presenting sister packages whic...

Resum This paper deals with an NP-hard string problem from the bio-informatics field: the repetition-free longest common subsequence problem. This problem has enjoyed an increasing interest in recent years, which has resulted in the application of several pure as well as hybrid metaheuristics. However, the literature lacks a comprehensive comparison between those approaches. Moreover, it has be...

We present a new approach to teaching programming language courses. Its essence is to view programming language learning as a natural science activity, where students probe languages experimentally to understand both the normal and extreme behaviors of their features. This has natural parallels to the “security mindset” of computer security, with languages taking the place of servers and other ...

Resum This paper deals with an NP-hard string problem from the bio-informatics field: the repetition-free longest common subsequence problem. This problem has enjoyed an increasing interest in recent years, which has resulted in the application of several pure as well as hybrid metaheuristics. However, the literature lacks a comprehensive comparison between those approaches. Moreover, it has be...

A propositional logic program P may be identified with a PfPf -coalgebra on the set of atomic propositions in the program. The corresponding C(PfPf )coalgebra, where C(PfPf ) is the cofree comonad on PfPf , describes derivations by resolution. That correspondence has been developed to model first-order programs in two ways, with lax semantics and saturated semantics, based on locally ordered ca...