Simon Peyton-Jones: Composing Contracts - An Adventure in Financial Engineering
Category: Languages > Programming      Posted: 09 Mar 09

Financial and insurance contracts do not sound like promising territory for functional programming and formal semantics, but in fact we have discovered that insights from programming languages bear directly on the complex subject of describing and valuing a large class of contracts.

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Nicholas C. Zakas: Test-Driven Development with YUI Test
Category: Languages > Testing      Posted: 10 Nov 08

Yahoo! engineer and YUI Test developer Nicholas C. Zakas provides an introduction to the concepts of test-driven development (TDD) and shows how to app...

End User Software Engineering
Category: Others > Discussion      Posted: 03 Jun 07

In this talk, we will consider what happens when we add to end-user programming ... all ยป environments consideration of the software lifecycle beyond...