Aims and Scope of ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems
The ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS) is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal on programming languages published by the Association for Computing Machinery since 1979. The current editor-in-chief is Andrew Myers. Its scope includes programming language design, implementation, and semantics of programming languages, compilers and interpreters, run-time systems, storage allocation and garbage collection, and formal specification, testing, and verification of software. Less
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| Overview | |
| Publisher | ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY |
| Language | English |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| General Details | |
| Language | English |
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| Publication Start Year | 1979 |
| Publisher URL | Visit website |
| Website URL | Visit website |
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