Robert Grimm

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Robert Grimm
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• PhD 2002, University of Washington
• How to build pervasive applications?
• Lots of work on extensible systems
• Extensible storage
• Extensible security
• Extensible web applications
• But also on programming languages
• http//cs.nyu.edu/rgrimm/

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One Example Project Jeannie
Robert Grimm

• Problem how to interface Java and C?
• Required to access OS, reuse legacy libraries,
  speed up code
• Standard approach define some API such as Java
  Native Interface
• May be efficient and portable, but hard to make
  safe and productive
• Our approach combine both Java and C into one
  language
• Use minimal new syntax (the operator) to switch
  between languages
• Type check code across the two languages
• Implement by composing existing compiler
  debugger components