This is the second of three lectures on integrating domain-specific languages with general-purpose programming languages. In particular, SQL for database queries. This lecture presented LINQ, Language Integrated Query, together with some background on Microsoft’s .NET framework, and the language features added to C# to support LINQ.
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Lecture 10: Bridging Query and Programming Languages
29 October 2010
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Lecture 9: Using SQL from Java
26 October 2010This is the first of three lectures on integrating domain-specific languages with general-purpose programming languages. In particular, SQL for database queries.
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Coursework office hour
15 October 2010There are no lectures next week, and you should work on your coursework investigation. If you have questions or problems you wish to raise, you can bring them to me on Wednesday afternoon.
Office Hour: 2-3pm Wednesday 20 October, Informatics Forum 5.04, Ian Stark
If the turnstile gates are closed and your student card does not open them, ask at the front desk for admission.
Otherwise, please post any questions here on the blog or by email either to the mailing list apl-students@inf.ed.ac.uk or to me Ian.Stark@ed.ac.uk.
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Lecture 8: Monads and I/O
15 October 2010Leading on from the slides by Peyton Jones, this lecture sets out how constructor classes and higher-order functions can help to treat effectful computation within a pure functional language; or potentially contain its influence within an imperative one.
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Lecture 7: Polymorphism from Types to Kinds and Beyond
12 October 2010Continuing with types, and in particular some uses in the experimental language laboratory that is Haskell. This lecture covers more on polymorphism, in both object-oriented and functional languages.
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