Programming languages are typically considered to be difficult to implement. However, a programming language tailored to an application domain can be an extremely powerful productivity enhancer. We present a pattern language for implementing languages that gathers together many ideas that are known in the language implementation community that should be more widely known. By applying this patte...

Initial ideas for software solutions usually revolve around specific business problems or opportunities, but they will most often concentrate on some business vision or a mission-critical or mission-central theme, i.e., some specific problem domain which has attendant vocabulary, techniques, equipment, and quality concerns. Therefore, the first purpose of EDUCE is to foster clarity and commonal...

Giving a good presentation is not easy. It takes a lot of discipline and creativity to prepare and give a presentation that, on the one hand, is received positively by its audience and, on the other hand, has the effects desired by the presenter. This paper gives a handful of recommendations that aid in creating a good presentation. These recommendations are put in pattern form and combined int...

Motivation Every software engineer has used techniques to increase the execution speed of the system under development. Some of these techniques are purely technical, i.e. using a more efficient algorithm, others focus on correct distribution of tasks among different system parts, on management and development process, or on feature avoidance. Engineers working in different areas such as databa...

this study aimed to examine cross-cultural differences in performing refusal of requests between persian native speakers (pnss) and english native speakers (enss) in terms of the frequency of the semantic formulas. also examined in this study was whether persian efl learners would transfer their l1 refusal patterns into the l2, and if there would be a relation between their proficiency level an...

the present article investigates the stress pattern system of central sarawani balochi (csb), spoken in sarawan located in sistan and baluchestan province of the islamic republic of iran, based on metrical theory as developed in hayes (1995). correspondingly, the present research illustrates the position of primary and secondary stress in mono-morphemic words, verbal paradigms, compound words, ...

the author in this research has tried to link the alexander pattern language theory, which is based on human oriented and spatial factors, to landscape design, which could come to a cyclic model of “a pattern language for landscape design” in iranian schools of architecture. so, a landscape design process based on the value of human-oriented approach, which is extracted from other values, and t...