Findler Co-authors Featured Technical Article in Communications of the ACM Magazine
As the software industry enters the era of language-oriented programming, it needs programmable programming languages, such as Racket to thrive.
Prof. Robby Findler has co-authored a technical article, titled, "A Programmable Programming Language", which is featured as the cover story in the March 2018 edition of Communications of the ACM (CACM) for the progression of his language-oriented programming language (LOP), Racket, a project exploring this emerging idea at different levels of revolutionizing the way people build software.
Racket (now a 23-year effort) is one attempt to continue the search for proper linguistic abstractions. While it has achieved remarkable success in this direction, it also shows that programming-language research has many problems to address before the vision of language-oriented programming becomes reality. Read Full Article
His coauthors include: Matthias Felleisen, Matthew Flatt, Shriram Krishnamurthi, Eli Barzilay, Jay McCarthy, and Sam Tobin-Hochstadt.
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