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[SQ08c] Serrano, M. and Queinnec, C. -- Une galerie de photos sur le Web avec HOP -- Programmez!, (105), Feb, 2008.

[ http://www.programmez.com ]

[SQ08d] Serrano, M. and Queinnec, C. -- Hop, un langage de programmation pour le Web -- Programmez!, (104), Jan, 2008.

[ http://www.programmez.com ]

[Epa08b] Epardaud, S. -- ULM, un langage pour la mobilité -- Thèse de doctorat d'université, Université de Nice, Nice, Jan, 2008.

[LS08b] Loitsch, F. and Serrano, M. -- Trends in Functional Programming, ch. Hop Client-Side Compilation -- Moraz M. T. editor, Seton Hall University, Intellect Bristol, UK/Chicago, USA, 2008, pp. 141--158.

[SG07b] Serrano, M. and Gallesio, E. -- An Adaptive Package Management System for Scheme -- Proceedings of the Second Dynamic Languages Symposium, Montréal, Québec, Canada, Oct, 2007.

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This paper presents a package management system for the Scheme programming language. It is inspired by the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (Cpan) and various GNU/Linux distributions. It downloads, installs, and prepares source codes for execution. It manages the dependencies between packages. The main characteristic of this system is its neutrality with respect to the various Scheme implementations. It is neutral with respect to the language extensions that each Scheme implementation proposes and with respect to the execution environment of these implementations. This allows the programmer to blend, within the same program, independent components which have been developed and tested within different Scheme implementations. ScmPkg is available at: http://hop.inria.fr/hop/scmpkg

[Ser07c] Serrano, M. -- Programming Web Multimedia Applications with Hop -- Proceedings of the ACM Sigmm and ACM Siggraph conference on Multimedia, Best Open Source Software, Augsburg, Germany, Sep, 2007.

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Hop is a new execution platform for running interactive and multimedia applications on the Web. It is aimed at executing applications such as Web agendas, Web galleries, Web music players, etc. Hop consists of: i) a new programming language specially designed for addressing the distributed aspects of Web programming, ii) a rich set of libraries for dealing with music files, sounds, pictures, photographs, etc., iii) a full-fledged Web server for executing the server-side components of the applications.

In this paper we illustrate Hop's skills for programming multimedia applications in two examples. We show that, with 50 lines of code, an operational photograph gallery can be implemented and we show that with approximatively 30 lines of code an operational podcast receiver can be built.

[SGL06d] Serrano, M. and Gallesio, E. and Loitsch, F. -- HOP, a language for programming the Web 2.0 -- Proceedings of the First Dynamic Languages Symposium, Portland, Oregon, USA, Oct, 2006.

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Hop is a new higher-order language designed for programming interactive web applications such as web agendas, web galleries, music players, etc. It exposes a programming model based on two computation levels. The first one is in charge of executing the logic of an application while the second one is in charge of executing the graphical user interface. Hop separates the logic and the graphical user interface but it packages them together and it supports strong collaboration between the two engines. The two execution flows communicate through function calls and event loops. Both ends can initiate communications. The paper presents the main constructions of Hop. It sketches its implementation and it presents an example of a simple web application written in Hop.

[Ser06b] Serrano, M. -- The HOP Development Kit -- Invited paper of the Seventh Acm sigplan Workshop on Scheme and Functional Programming, Portland, Oregon, USA, Sep, 2006.

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Hop, is a language dedicated to programming reactive and dynamic applications on the web. It is meant for programming applications such as web agendas, web galleries, web mail clients, etc. While a previous paper (Hop, a Language for Programming the Web 2.0, available at http://hop.inria.fr) focused on the linguistic novelties brought by Hop, the present one focuses on its execution environment. That is, it presents Hop's user libraries, its extensions to the HTML-based standards, and its execution platform, the Hop web broker.

[Loi05b] Loitsch, F. -- Javascript Compilation -- Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on Scheme and Function Programming, Tallinn, Estonia, Sep, 2005, pp. 101-111.

Jsigloo compiles Javascript to Scheme. It acts as an frontend to Bigloo which subsequently compiles the intermediate result to one of its backends (C, JVM or .NET). Such a compilation furthermore benefits of the optimizations implemented within Bigloo. Jsigloo hence implements only few optimizations, but tries to produce easily optimizable Scheme code. Scheme is (by design) a relatively minimal language, and some Javascript constructs don't have equivalent expressions in Scheme. This paper presents the difficulties we encountered when mapping these constructs. It furthermore describes the optimizations that have been implemented in Jsigloo.

[GS05c] Gallesio, E. and Serrano, M. -- Skribe: a Functional Authoring Language -- Journal of Functional Programming, 2005.

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Skribe is a functional programming language designed for authoring documents, such as web pages or technical reports. It is built on top of the Scheme programming language. Its concrete syntax is simple and it looks familiar to anyone used to markup languages. Authoring a document with Skribe is as simple as with HTML or LaTeX. Because of the conciseness of its original syntax, it is even possible to use it without noticing that it is a programming language. In Skribe, the ratio "markup/text" is smaller than with the other markup systems we have tested.

[Epa04b] Epardaud, S. -- Mobile reactive programming in ULM -- Proceedings of the Fifth ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Scheme and Functional Programming, Snowbird, Utah, Sep 22,, 2004, pp. 87-98.

[ http://www-sop.inria.fr/mimosa/Stephane.Epardaud/papers/ulm-scheme-2004.pdf | pdf ]

We present the embedding of ULM in Scheme and an implementation of a compiler and virtual machine for it. ULM is a core programming model that allows multi-threaded and distributed programming via strong mobility with a deterministic semantics. We present the multi-threading and distributed primitives of ULM step by step using examples. The introduction of mobility in a Scheme language raises questions about the semantics of variables with respect to migration. We expose the problems and offer two solutions alongside ULM's network references. We also present our implementation of the compiler, virtual machine and the concurrent threading library written in Scheme.

[SBS04b] Serrano, M. and Boussinot, F. and Serpette, B. -- Scheme Fair Threads -- 6th sigplan International Conference on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming (PPDP), Verona, Italy, Aug, 2004, pp. 203--214.

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This paper presents Fair Threads, a new model for concurrent programming. This multi-threading model combines preemptive and cooperative scheduling. User threads execute according to a cooperative strategy. Service threads execute according to a preemptive strategy. User threads may ask services from service threads in order to improve performance by exploiting hardware parallelism and in order to execute non-blocking operations.

Fair threads are experimented within the context of the functional programming language Scheme. This paper also presents the integration in this language. That is, it presents a semantics for Scheme augmented with Fair Threads and the main characteristics of the implementation.

[CS03b] Ciabrini, D. and Serrano, M. -- Bugloo: A Source Level Debugger for Scheme Programs Compiled into JVM Bytecode -- 3th International Lisp Conference, New York, USA, Oct, 2003.

[ http://www-sop.inria.fr/mimosa/fp/Bugloo ]

[GS03b] Gallesio, E. and Serrano, M. -- Programming Graphical User Interfaces with Scheme -- Journal of Functional Programming, 13(5), Sep, 2003, pp. 839--886.

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This paper presents Biglook, a widget library for an extended version of the Scheme programming language. It uses classes of a Clos-like object layer to represent widgets and Scheme closures to handle graphical events. Combining functional and object-oriented programming styles yields an original application programming interface that advocates a strict separation between the implementation of the graphical interfaces and the user-associated commands, enabling compact source code.

The Biglook implementation separates the Scheme programming interface and the native back-end. This permits different ports for Biglook. The current version uses GTK and Swing graphical toolkits, while the previous release used Tk.

[Ser03b] Serrano, M. -- Langage C++, ch. Techniques de l'ingénieur, 249, rue de Crimée, 75925 Paris, Cedex 19, France, 2003.

[ http://www.techniques-ingenieur.fr ]

[SBS02b] Serrano, M. and Boussinot, F. and Serpette, B. -- Scheme FairThreads -- 2th International Lisp Conference (invited paper), San Francisco, CA, USA, Oct, 2002.

[GS02b] Gallesio, E. and Serrano, M. -- Biglook: a Widget Library for the Scheme Programming Language -- 2002 Usenix annual technical conference, Freenix track, Monterey, Californie, USA, Jun, 2002, pp. 85--97.

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[SG02b] Serrano, M. and Gallesio, E. -- This is Scribe! -- 3th Acm sigplan Workshop on Scheme and Functional Programming, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, Jun, 2002.

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This paper presents Scribe, a functional programming language for authoring documents. Even if it is a general purpose tool, it best suits the writing of technical documents such as web pages or technical reports, API documentations, etc. Executing Scribe programs can produce documents of various formats such as PostScript, PDF, HTML, Texinfo or Unix man pages. That is, the very same program can be used to produce documents in different formats. Scribe is a full featured programming language but it looks like a markup language à la HTML.