The Rational Programmer: Investigating Programming Language Pragmatics.

This article presents the development of the rational programmer, which incorporates pragmatics into developing and updating programming languages. Topics include typed and untyped programming languages, run-time checks and type mismatches. The article presents how the rational programmer works, wha...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 68; no. 7; pp. 120 - 131
Main Authors: Dimoulas, Christos, Felleisen, Matthias
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Jul2025
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