Assignment 3

Reading

Read the following two papers and write a short summary (0.5 pages for each):

• MetaML and multi-stage programming with explicit annotations.
  Taha and Sheard 2001
• Lightweight Modular Staging.
  Rompf and Odersky 2010

Your summary should identify the main insights and scientific contribution of the paper: what is the key idea? what is possible after the paper came out that wasn't possible before? (It is a good idea to skim some of the related work to answer these questions).

Here is some additional advice, by Kathryn S McKinley (thanks to Keith Chapman for the link).

Summaries are due before midnight on Tuesday, September 23 (submit per email to the instructor).

Hacking

(no programming assignment this week)