Project 2 -- Independent study

Assigned: Monday, 30 April 2007

Due: Tuesday, 8 May 2007, at 9 AM

For this assignment, you will do one of the following

1. Extend your previous work with a new talk and examples drawn to illustrate other features of the language
2. Do a similar project to Project 1 on a different language
3. Something else interesting related to a programming language or languages.

Again, you should think in terms of the material we've discussed this semester:

• symbols, syntax, semantics, pragmatics
• advantages/disadvantages over languages you already know
• functional/declarative characteristics
• imperative characteristics
• object-oriented characteristics
• time-to-competency, time-to-mastery, power
• orthogonality of commands and data structures
• memory models and execution characteristics
• operating system integration, concurrency
• binding times for types, functions, variables, values, etc.

As before, you will give:

• a short (7-10 minute) presentation on your language, including
  • a demo of your own creation showing salient features of the language

Hand in a brief write-up of your work including code examples; no larger paper
is required for this project. HOWEVER, if your previous document was lacking
in discussion of language concepts as listed above, you may want to make your
Project 2 write-up a bit longer and make up for the previous deficit.